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 778
... necessary steps to carry it into effect . The price reductions as the result of the ceiling changes will amount to an average of 2 cents a pound on the wholesale price of beef and veal and will reflect a retail saving to the consumer of ...
... necessary steps to carry it into effect . The price reductions as the result of the ceiling changes will amount to an average of 2 cents a pound on the wholesale price of beef and veal and will reflect a retail saving to the consumer of ...
Page 779
... necessary , " the Ad- ministrator stated , " if there is to be complete success under the hold - the - line order . " Among the measures which the Price Administrator outlined were : ( 1 ) The new dollars - and - cents program which ...
... necessary , " the Ad- ministrator stated , " if there is to be complete success under the hold - the - line order . " Among the measures which the Price Administrator outlined were : ( 1 ) The new dollars - and - cents program which ...
Page 802
... necessary for them to reduce the price to the producer . The CHAIRMAN . It will not be necessary , but you know they will do it . Senator BUSHFIELD . Well , that is the question of human nature . I am just asking if I am correct in my ...
... necessary for them to reduce the price to the producer . The CHAIRMAN . It will not be necessary , but you know they will do it . Senator BUSHFIELD . Well , that is the question of human nature . I am just asking if I am correct in my ...
Page 805
... necessary for nutrition . The ques- tion is , how much meat he wants to buy . There isn't enough meat , Senator Bushfield , to supply all the meat that all the people of the United States want to buy , not by a big margin . 84147-43 ...
... necessary for nutrition . The ques- tion is , how much meat he wants to buy . There isn't enough meat , Senator Bushfield , to supply all the meat that all the people of the United States want to buy , not by a big margin . 84147-43 ...
Page 813
... necessary to get the soil to produce what it is capable of producing . I went from Chicago to Washington yesterday , and I was amazed and shocked when I saw the situation down through Indiana and Ohio . As far as we could see last night ...
... necessary to get the soil to produce what it is capable of producing . I went from Chicago to Washington yesterday , and I was amazed and shocked when I saw the situation down through Indiana and Ohio . As far as we could see last night ...
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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?