International Wheat Agreement Funds: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Foresrty, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, First Session, on S. 2287 and S. 2383, Bills to Give Effect to the International Wheat Agreement Signed by the United States and Other Countries Relating to the Stabilization of Supplies and Prices in the International Wheat Market. Sept. 21 and 22, 1949 |
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... dated July 18, 1949, requesting enactment of S. 2383------------------ Letter from
Acting Secretary of Agriculture A. J. Loveland, dated August 8, 1949, reporting
adversely on S. 2287 ------------------ Table showing procurement with free dollars
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... dated July 18, 1949, requesting enactment of S. 2383------------------ Letter from
Acting Secretary of Agriculture A. J. Loveland, dated August 8, 1949, reporting
adversely on S. 2287 ------------------ Table showing procurement with free dollars
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In effect would you not agree that really increases ECA appropriations some 60
or 80 million dollars this year? They can export this wheat or must sell it now for
$1.80 a bushel to these ECA countries, whereas they would have to pay probably
...
In effect would you not agree that really increases ECA appropriations some 60
or 80 million dollars this year? They can export this wheat or must sell it now for
$1.80 a bushel to these ECA countries, whereas they would have to pay probably
...
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In answer to your question a moment ago, Senator Holland, ECA did in their
testimony before the Appropriations Committee indicate that they had cut their
budget by some 60 or 80 million dollars, taking into account that the Commodity
Credit ...
In answer to your question a moment ago, Senator Holland, ECA did in their
testimony before the Appropriations Committee indicate that they had cut their
budget by some 60 or 80 million dollars, taking into account that the Commodity
Credit ...
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Well, supposing the Canadian farmers increase their wheat acreage say 20
percent next year and come up with a 20 percent increase in production. Are we
obligated to help them get rid of their surplus again with United States dollars and
cut ...
Well, supposing the Canadian farmers increase their wheat acreage say 20
percent next year and come up with a 20 percent increase in production. Are we
obligated to help them get rid of their surplus again with United States dollars and
cut ...
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... I am wondering if it would be good Government policy to use hundreds of
millions of dollars of United States money to subsidize their exports, leaving us
holding the sack here, supporting wheat prices at a large cost to the Government.
... I am wondering if it would be good Government policy to use hundreds of
millions of dollars of United States money to subsidize their exports, leaving us
holding the sack here, supporting wheat prices at a large cost to the Government.
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| Title | International Wheat Agreement Funds: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Foresrty, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, First Session, on S. 2287 and S. 2383, Bills to Give Effect to the International Wheat Agreement Signed by the United States and Other ... |
| Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | 31 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 52 pages |
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