Meat Packer: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, First Session : on H.R. 14 ... H.R. 232, H.R. 5034 ... H.R. 5692 : May 1921U.S. Government Printing Office, 1921 - 542 pages |
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... handled . The commission shall ascertain the stockyards which come within the definition and shall give notice . Section 303 provides that 30 days after commission has given public notice , no person shall carry on business of a market ...
... handled . The commission shall ascertain the stockyards which come within the definition and shall give notice . Section 303 provides that 30 days after commission has given public notice , no person shall carry on business of a market ...
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... handled now that even the packer is losing money , but I do not know where the money is going if he is losing money . Mr. JONES . I understand the retailer is overcharging for meats frequently . The packers are publishing their cost ...
... handled now that even the packer is losing money , but I do not know where the money is going if he is losing money . Mr. JONES . I understand the retailer is overcharging for meats frequently . The packers are publishing their cost ...
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... handle that matter by way of the commission making an order , or sometimes we get together with the stockyards company and get a reduction in rate when the market is fluctuating up and down . For instance , this last fall we found it ...
... handle that matter by way of the commission making an order , or sometimes we get together with the stockyards company and get a reduction in rate when the market is fluctuating up and down . For instance , this last fall we found it ...
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... handled : All stockers and feeders are usually put over to the speculator . He usually comes along and buys them and puts them into pens and then he siezes them up and picks out the best ones , and replants them in the yards and sells ...
... handled : All stockers and feeders are usually put over to the speculator . He usually comes along and buys them and puts them into pens and then he siezes them up and picks out the best ones , and replants them in the yards and sells ...
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... handled it is very unsatisfac- tory to us . And our State and the States of North and South Dakota are prac- tically a ... handle the situation better than could any bureau established in Washington . And we wish you would give earnest ...
... handled it is very unsatisfac- tory to us . And our State and the States of North and South Dakota are prac- tically a ... handle the situation better than could any bureau established in Washington . And we wish you would give earnest ...
Common terms and phrases
Armour Armour & Co ASWELL Big Five big packers cattle cent CHAIRMAN charge CLARKE committee competition complaint Congress consumer cost court CREIGH Cudahy Cudahy Packing Co dealer decree DURAND EYCK fact farmers Federal Trade Commission furnish gentlemen GERNERD Government handle Haugen bill hearing Heney hogs HORMEL interest Interstate Commerce Commission investigation JONES KINCHELOE legislation letter LIGHTFOOT live stock market agency MARSH matter MCLAUGHLIN of Nebraska meat Morris & Co NASH packing business packing industry person practice profit provisions PURNELL question railroads reason refrigerator cars regulation retail RYAN Secretary of Agriculture Secretary WALLACE sell Senate ship shipment shippers slaughter small packer SMITH South St statement stockyard owner Swift Swift & Co TALIAFERRO TEN EYCK thing TINCHER tion to-day unfair VEEDER violation VOIGT WILSON yards
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