Food Supply of the United States: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Seventy-eighty Congress, First Session, on the Food Supply of the United States ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943 - Food supply |
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Page 947
... fuel oil and gas from us , they don't even ration the fuel oil at all , and if I drive over the line from Vermont into Canada I can get 15 gallons of gas , or 12 imperial gal- lons , to drive around on . In Canada they are definitely ...
... fuel oil and gas from us , they don't even ration the fuel oil at all , and if I drive over the line from Vermont into Canada I can get 15 gallons of gas , or 12 imperial gal- lons , to drive around on . In Canada they are definitely ...
Page 980
... fuels about 5 years ago . The need for the service was so great that this distribution system grew rapidly , and we now purchase petroleum supplies for approxi- mately 8,000 farmers in the above - named States . The petroleum products ...
... fuels about 5 years ago . The need for the service was so great that this distribution system grew rapidly , and we now purchase petroleum supplies for approxi- mately 8,000 farmers in the above - named States . The petroleum products ...
Page 988
... fuel volume must be recognized . This means that allocations by the supply and distribution committee to the farmer supplier must be based on the end use of the product , rather than on the 1941 sales position of the primary supplier ...
... fuel volume must be recognized . This means that allocations by the supply and distribution committee to the farmer supplier must be based on the end use of the product , rather than on the 1941 sales position of the primary supplier ...
Page 997
... fuel for the farmer . Senator AIKEN . What about the shipment of petroleum products into the northeast part of the country ? Have they been increasing ? Mr. ALLEN . Yes , sir ; they have . So has outgo . Senator AIKEN . You mean the ...
... fuel for the farmer . Senator AIKEN . What about the shipment of petroleum products into the northeast part of the country ? Have they been increasing ? Mr. ALLEN . Yes , sir ; they have . So has outgo . Senator AIKEN . You mean the ...
Page 999
... fuel , kerosene , or fuel oils you should telephone Mr. Mark Anton at the same address and telephone number . C. If the shortage difficulty arises , not because of shortage of product or short- age of quota , but rather because the ...
... fuel , kerosene , or fuel oils you should telephone Mr. Mark Anton at the same address and telephone number . C. If the shortage difficulty arises , not because of shortage of product or short- age of quota , but rather because the ...
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Agriculture ALLEN amount beef believe billion BRANDT butter butterfat cattle ceiling prices cents a pound CHAIRMAN cheese committee commodities Commodity Credit Corporation Congress consumer Cooperative cost of living cream creamery crops dairy products DAVIS DAVISON duction effect ELKINTON ELLISON D farm farmers feed FOGG Food Administration fuel oil GALBRAITH gasoline going Goss Government hogs HOLMAN income increase industry inflation inventories labor lease-lend lend-lease livestock meat milk MONTAGUE month National Office of Price operation packers payments percent Petroleum Administration plant Price Administration price ceilings price control price of butter price of milk processors purchasing quota reduced retail roll-back of prices Secretary JONES sell Senator AIKEN Senator BUSHFIELD Senator GILLETTE Senator MCNARY Senator MILLIKIN Senator WILLIS September 15 shortage situation slaughter statement STITTS STROBECK subsidy program sumer supplier supply support price thing tion United wages Washington week workers
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Page 866 - An Act to amend the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, to aid in preventing inflation, and for other purposes," or which is sold at a price not in excess of the January 1.
Page 977 - Washington, DC The subcommittee met (pursuant to call) at 10 am, in the committee room of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, 324 Senate Office Building, Senator Charles O.
Page 810 - Of let him take who has the power, And let him keep who can, the Boers now proceeded to possess themselves of as much territory as they wanted.
Page 794 - To hold the line we cannot tolerate further increases in prices affecting the cost of living or further increases in general wage or salary rates except where clearly necessary to correct substandard living conditions. The only way to hold the line is to stop trying to find justification for not holding it here or not holding it there.
Page 784 - Are there any questions that the members of the committee would like to ask on that point ? Mr.
Page 937 - Whenever the Administrator determines that the maximum necessary production of any commodity is not being obtained or may not be obtained during the ensuing year, he may, on behalf of the United States, without regard to the provisions of law requiring competitive bidding, buy or sell at public or private sale, or store or use, such commodity in such quantities and in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as he determines to be necessary to obtain the maximum necessary production thereof...
Page 794 - ... increases in general wage or salary rates except where clearly necessary to correct substandard living conditions. The only way to hold the line is to stop trying to find justifications for not holding it here or not holding it there. No one straw may break a camel's back, but there is always a last straw. We cannot afford to take further chances in relaxing the line. We already have taken too many.
Page 1041 - ... part from any agricultural commodity, under regulations to be prescribed by the President, in any case where it appears that such modification is necessary to increase the production of such commodity for war purposes...
Page 889 - UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, Washington, DC The subcommittee met at 10 am, pursuant to adjournment, in the committee room of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, 324 Senate Office Building, Senator Lewis B.
Page 866 - ... make subsidy payments to domestic producers of such commodity in such amounts and in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as he determines to be necessary to obtain the maximum necessary production thereof — Is that the provision?