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 852
... gasoline , have you ? Mr. STROBECK . Yes ; by the way , I have a gas tank on my farm . The concern that has delivered me gas for years - I happened on Monday to be out in front of the building as they came along . I hadn't looked at my ...
... gasoline , have you ? Mr. STROBECK . Yes ; by the way , I have a gas tank on my farm . The concern that has delivered me gas for years - I happened on Monday to be out in front of the building as they came along . I hadn't looked at my ...
Page 978
... gasoline and other supplies which they need to produce these vital foods . They have been promised that gasoline would be made avail- able to them ; that their gasoline priority would be next to that of the armed forces , but the ...
... gasoline and other supplies which they need to produce these vital foods . They have been promised that gasoline would be made avail- able to them ; that their gasoline priority would be next to that of the armed forces , but the ...
Page 979
... gasoline is vital and must be provided if we are going forward to produce the food which is required under these strenuous war conditions . Senator AIKEN . Thank you , Mr. Benson . We will have two other persons make preliminary ...
... gasoline is vital and must be provided if we are going forward to produce the food which is required under these strenuous war conditions . Senator AIKEN . Thank you , Mr. Benson . We will have two other persons make preliminary ...
Page 980
... gasoline in many instances to drive the trucks to the tanks , and various other uses to which farm machinery should be put , for example , in cultivating . Much of the cultivating in the country , as everyone knows , is done now by ...
... gasoline in many instances to drive the trucks to the tanks , and various other uses to which farm machinery should be put , for example , in cultivating . Much of the cultivating in the country , as everyone knows , is done now by ...
Page 981
... gasoline received by our bulk plants passes on in excess of 90 percent to farm use ; in other words , in the production of food . Our organization experienced no serious difficulty in obtaining ade- quate quantities of gasoline until ...
... gasoline received by our bulk plants passes on in excess of 90 percent to farm use ; in other words , in the production of food . Our organization experienced no serious difficulty in obtaining ade- quate quantities of gasoline until ...
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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?