Federal Crop Insurance: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session on S. 1397, a Bill to Create a Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, and for Other Purposes |
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reason. is. two. -. fold . First. ,. we. wanted. to. progress only as we gained
experience , and we had perhaps a more complete actuarial basis for wheat than
for any other crop ; and second , when we conferred with the farm groups — we
called ...
reason. is. two. -. fold . First. ,. we. wanted. to. progress only as we gained
experience , and we had perhaps a more complete actuarial basis for wheat than
for any other crop ; and second , when we conferred with the farm groups — we
called ...
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Comptroller General . That may be a good policy or it may be a bad one , but so
long as we have it , it seems to me that before we set up any agency which is
exempt from it , we should have testimony at least as to the reason why it should
be ...
Comptroller General . That may be a good policy or it may be a bad one , but so
long as we have it , it seems to me that before we set up any agency which is
exempt from it , we should have testimony at least as to the reason why it should
be ...
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I see no reason why it would not fit in in a very good way . Particularly the farm
leaders were all sold to the ever normal granary idea that we have been
discussing , that is , the carrying of supplies of food and feed and fibre , and the
wheat men ...
I see no reason why it would not fit in in a very good way . Particularly the farm
leaders were all sold to the ever normal granary idea that we have been
discussing , that is , the carrying of supplies of food and feed and fibre , and the
wheat men ...
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Now , most of the mutual companies , hail insurance and tornado insurance and
so on , for the reason that they bave confined their activities to so small a territory
, most of them have failed , but I know there is one in my State that has been in ...
Now , most of the mutual companies , hail insurance and tornado insurance and
so on , for the reason that they bave confined their activities to so small a territory
, most of them have failed , but I know there is one in my State that has been in ...
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No ; I have not been able to discover what seemed to me any serious difficulty or
threat to the price structure by reason of the relatively limited accumulation of
wheat that might accrue as the result of a good year , when premiums were being
...
No ; I have not been able to discover what seemed to me any serious difficulty or
threat to the price structure by reason of the relatively limited accumulation of
wheat that might accrue as the result of a good year , when premiums were being
...
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| Title | Federal Crop Insurance: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session on S. 1397, a Bill to Create a Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, and for Other Purposes |
| Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 223 pages |
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