Defense Production Act Amendments of 1951: Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, First Session, on S. 1397, a Bill to Amend the Defense Production Act of 1950, and for Other Purposes, Part 4

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Page 2952 - Cuba presents its compliments to the Department of State and has the honor to refer to the bill (HR 3638) presented in March of this year to the House of Representatives of the United States...
Page 2956 - The Ambassador of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia presents his compliments to the Honorable the Secretary of State and has the honor to...
Page 2951 - Ambassador to the United States presents his compliments to the Secretary of State and has the honor to...
Page 2976 - ... as a result, in whole or in part, of the duty or other customs treatment reflecting such concession, being imported in such increased quantities, either actual or relative, as to cause or threaten serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive products...
Page 2958 - ... substituted, by making the surplus available to certain groups of domestic consumers free of charge or at prices below the current market level...
Page 3041 - ... any action which it considers necessary for the protection of its essential security interests...
Page 3131 - Speculative fluctuations, general increases or decreases in costs of production, distribution, and transportation, and general increases or decreases in profits earned by sellers of the commodity or commodities, during and subsequent to the year ended October 1, 1941.
Page 3366 - ... (c) Whenever the President invokes the powers given him in this Act to allocate any material in the civilian market, he shall do so in such a manner as to make available, so far as practicable, for business and various segments thereof in the normal channel of distribution...
Page 3131 - Administrator * * * the price or prices of a commodity or commodities have risen or threaten to rise to an extent or in a manner inconsistent with the purposes of this Act...
Page 3371 - President finds will result in a significant dislocation of the normal distribution in the civilian market, he shall do so in such a manner as to make available, so far as practicable, for business and various segments thereof in the normal channel of distribution of such material, a fair share of the available civilian supply based, so far as practicable, on the share...

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