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
... percent of the present retail prices . The Price Administrator further announced that he was recommending to the Secre- tary of Commerce that subsidy payments be made to processors of the com- modities involved to prevent the reduced ...
... percent of the present retail prices . The Price Administrator further announced that he was recommending to the Secre- tary of Commerce that subsidy payments be made to processors of the com- modities involved to prevent the reduced ...
Page 782
... percent roll - back at the retail level the effect upon the producer's price would be much greater than 10 percent , as the following figures witness : Effect of roll - back on producer's price Commodity Butter Beef Cents Cents Retail ...
... percent roll - back at the retail level the effect upon the producer's price would be much greater than 10 percent , as the following figures witness : Effect of roll - back on producer's price Commodity Butter Beef Cents Cents Retail ...
Page 783
... percent , while during the same period , the earnings per employed industrial worker increased 70.6 percent . Therefore , when the increase in the cost of living is deducted from the increase in wage incomes , industrial workers have ...
... percent , while during the same period , the earnings per employed industrial worker increased 70.6 percent . Therefore , when the increase in the cost of living is deducted from the increase in wage incomes , industrial workers have ...
Page 785
... percent taken off for lend- lease . Today 50 percent of all this present reduction of butter is acquired for lend - lease_purposes and the Army and Navy . Senator BUSHFIELD . Does this proposed roll - back of price on but- ter penalize ...
... percent taken off for lend- lease . Today 50 percent of all this present reduction of butter is acquired for lend - lease_purposes and the Army and Navy . Senator BUSHFIELD . Does this proposed roll - back of price on but- ter penalize ...
Page 790
... percent- 79 percent of the consumer price of butter . On all dairy products the farmer gets 57 cents out of the consumer's dollar . Senator AIKEN . That is not net to the farmer . Transportation comes out of that . Mr. HOLMAN . That is ...
... percent- 79 percent of the consumer price of butter . On all dairy products the farmer gets 57 cents out of the consumer's dollar . Senator AIKEN . That is not net to the farmer . Transportation comes out of that . Mr. HOLMAN . That is ...
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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?