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
... rationed commodities to help insure that the full savings are reflected through to the consumer . The price reductions will go into effect June 1 and work is already under way on the mechanics of the program . The cuts in meat prices ...
... rationed commodities to help insure that the full savings are reflected through to the consumer . The price reductions will go into effect June 1 and work is already under way on the mechanics of the program . The cuts in meat prices ...
Page 779
... rationing boards . The Administrator stated that " the main outlines of this regulation will follow that already discussed with representatives of the food industries modified only to conform with the Executive order . Meetings will be ...
... rationing boards . The Administrator stated that " the main outlines of this regulation will follow that already discussed with representatives of the food industries modified only to conform with the Executive order . Meetings will be ...
Page 796
... rationing . To complete the job , Congress must act to reduce and hold in check the excess purchasing power . We must be prepared to tax our- selves more , to spend less , and save more . The details of new fiscal legislation must be ...
... rationing . To complete the job , Congress must act to reduce and hold in check the excess purchasing power . We must be prepared to tax our- selves more , to spend less , and save more . The details of new fiscal legislation must be ...
Page 804
... rationing and price controls our food , and by cutting the prices on these commodities we can be sure that it will get through to the consumer , that it will actually bring down the cost of living . Senator GILLETTE . Are you trying to ...
... rationing and price controls our food , and by cutting the prices on these commodities we can be sure that it will get through to the consumer , that it will actually bring down the cost of living . Senator GILLETTE . Are you trying to ...
Page 805
... rationing along with it . Part of the difficulty that our price control didn't meet , which up until recently was not too effective , was the result of a scarcity that was too great , a scarcity of what people wanted to buy , so that we ...
... rationing along with it . Part of the difficulty that our price control didn't meet , which up until recently was not too effective , was the result of a scarcity that was too great , a scarcity of what people wanted to buy , so that we ...
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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?