Food Supply of the United States: Hearings, Seventy-eighty Congress, First Session, 1. köideU.S. Government Printing Office, 1943 |
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Page 211 - That modifications shall be made in maximum prices established for any agricultural commodity and for commodities processed or manufactured in whole or substantial part from any agricultural commodity...
Page 286 - It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair ; the event is in the hand of God.
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Page 123 - ... have the quicker you would go under and the more wholesale would be your suffering. Mr. BEEBE. I will say, my land is paid for. I have not bought it on long-time payments, so I think I could worry through ; but probably I would lose not less than $25,000 per annum for the next 10 years.
Page 223 - EMPLOYMENT (a) (1) Wages to be paid the worker shall be the same as those paid for similar work to other agricultural laborers in the respective regions of destination...
Page 226 - SAVINGS FUND (a) The respective agency of the Government of the United States shall be responsible for the safekeeping of the sums contributed by the Mexican workers toward the formation...
Page 44 - person" includes an individual, corporation, partnership, association, or any other organized group of persons, or legal successor or representative of the foregoing, and includes the United States or any agency thereof, or any other government, or any of its political subdivisions, or any agency of any of the foregoing : Provided, That no punishment provided by this Act shall apply to the United States, or to any such government, political subdivision, or government agency. (b) The word "materials...
Page 316 - Are you a prophet? He replied: I am neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I learnt this from experience.
Page 174 - ... 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...
Page 259 - 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 Ellison D.