Small Business Participation in ECA Program: Hearing Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, First Session ... June 6, 1949 |
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... corporation , most of my business life was spent in competing with bigger businesses . Therefore , whatever bias I admit to is a bias for smaller enterprises . 1 I think also that I do have some knowledge of Statement of— Page Foster ...
... corporation , most of my business life was spent in competing with bigger businesses . Therefore , whatever bias I admit to is a bias for smaller enterprises . 1 I think also that I do have some knowledge of Statement of— Page Foster ...
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... Corporation ( Statens Stortingsgt 28 , Oslo , Nor- Kornforretning ) . way . Purchases those commodities which are procured on govern- ment to government basis ; such as , wheat , barley , and flaxseed . Private Dutch importers nego ...
... Corporation ( Statens Stortingsgt 28 , Oslo , Nor- Kornforretning ) . way . Purchases those commodities which are procured on govern- ment to government basis ; such as , wheat , barley , and flaxseed . Private Dutch importers nego ...
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... Corporation , and part of the buying is done through centralized agencies , the balance being done in the regular way , of the buyer over there going to his importer and saying , " Pur- chase for me X amount of goods in the United ...
... Corporation , and part of the buying is done through centralized agencies , the balance being done in the regular way , of the buyer over there going to his importer and saying , " Pur- chase for me X amount of goods in the United ...
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... Corporation for the New York and New Jersey area . After that I was called into the War Department , and eventually became Director of Purchases for the Army Service Forces , and special representative on procurement for the Air Forces ...
... Corporation for the New York and New Jersey area . After that I was called into the War Department , and eventually became Director of Purchases for the Army Service Forces , and special representative on procurement for the Air Forces ...
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... Corporation ; a rep- resentative of the various small business associations , if possible to be selected by them ; and an experienced , top - grade disseminator of infor- mation to the field . These men are to meet monthly . They will ...
... Corporation ; a rep- resentative of the various small business associations , if possible to be selected by them ; and an experienced , top - grade disseminator of infor- mation to the field . These men are to meet monthly . They will ...
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44 Beaver St ALLEN FREAR American dollars appropriation BANKING AND CURRENCY believe Bert White Bizone Board of Trade bought British Government buying agency CHAIRMAN chasing Commodity Credit Corporation competition cotton d'Achat develop Director disseminating Division of Ministry ECA dollars ECA is concerned ECA programs ECONOMIC COOPERATION ADMINISTRATION Europe European export field fats and oils FOSTER France French zone going Greece Groupement hardwood lumber help small HOFFMAN industries JOHN SPARKMAN KUNZE L'HEUREUX let us say long-term dollar investments Maybank ment Ministry of Food Netherlands Norway Office offshore procurement participating countries percent problem Procurement Agency procurement authorization purchasing missions question recovery fund securities Senator BRICKER Senator CAPEHART Senator FREAR Senator ROBERTSON Senator SPARKMAN small business small manufacturer smaller enterprises soft currencies soybeans staff suppliers supply task force things United Kingdom United States Senate Washington wheat York
Popular passages
Page 1 - Business. — (a) Insofar as practicable and to the maximum extent consistent with the accomplishment of the purposes of this Act, the President shall assist American small business to participate equitably in the furnishing of commodities...
Page 1 - States and particularly to small independent enterprises, information, as far in advance as possible, with respect to purchases proposed to be financed with such funds, (2) by causing to be made available to prospective purchasers in the nations receiving assistance under this Act information as to commodities and services produced by small independent enterprises in the United States...
Page 1 - The Secretary of Defense shall assure that there is made available to suppliers in the United States, and particularly to small independent enterprises, information with respect to purchases made by the Department of Defense pursuant to part II, such information to be furnished as far in advance as possible.
Page 10 - Destinations published by the Office of International Trade of the United States Department of Commerce...
Page 28 - To canvass all possible dollar sources, including United States sources, in order to insure they are obtaining the lowest possible bids; and, (c) Certainly not to pay more from any dollar source than United States suppliers quote.
Page 1 - ... foregoing paragraph (1). Each report transmitted to the Congress under section 123 shall include a report of all activities under this subsection. Will you proceed, Mr. Hoffman? STATEMENT OF PAUL HOFFMAN, CHAIRMAN, ECONOMIC COOPERATIVE ADMINISTRATION Mr. HOFFMAN. I will be very glad to open this with a few remarks. In the first place I would like to make my own personal attitude, if I may, clear, as far as smaller enterprises are concerned. That is, that...
Page 10 - ... mind, the Department expressed the view that the missions should limit their operations during the transition period to the procurement of commodities necessary to meet essential civilian requirements for relief and rehabilitation. The Department also took the position that purchasing missions should use normal trade channels to the maximum extent practicable and that their purchasing methods should be in accord with commercial considerations. The governments having purchasing missions here were...