Farm Relief Legislation: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Seventy-first Congress, First Session Relative to Establishing a Federal Farm Board to Aid in the Orderly Marketing, and in the Control and Disposition of the Surplus of Agricultural Commodities in Interstate and Foreign Commerce, March 25 to April 6, 1929, Part 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929 - 823 pages |
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... contracts with them , but I want to again call your attention to how Mr. Hoover handled that during the war . The first price of hogs was fixed at a 13 to 1 ratio . I think that that was largely done at the suggestion of the late ...
... contracts with them , but I want to again call your attention to how Mr. Hoover handled that during the war . The first price of hogs was fixed at a 13 to 1 ratio . I think that that was largely done at the suggestion of the late ...
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... contracts sug- gest that the third period of the business cycle the period of readjustment- may commence before the ... CONTRACTS SHOW FURTHER CURTAILMENT A sharp decline in building contracts awarded in February furnishes substan- tial ...
... contracts sug- gest that the third period of the business cycle the period of readjustment- may commence before the ... CONTRACTS SHOW FURTHER CURTAILMENT A sharp decline in building contracts awarded in February furnishes substan- tial ...
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... Contracts awarded in 37 eastern States , according to the F. W. Dodge Corporation were valued at $ 361,000,000 in February as against $ 465,000,000 in the same month last year , a decrease of 22.4 per cent . This decrease followed a ...
... Contracts awarded in 37 eastern States , according to the F. W. Dodge Corporation were valued at $ 361,000,000 in February as against $ 465,000,000 in the same month last year , a decrease of 22.4 per cent . This decrease followed a ...
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... contract entered into with each other and with the bank with which they are to do business and with the organization which is set up in the bill , will control that production . In other words , I seek to bring into force and effect the ...
... contract entered into with each other and with the bank with which they are to do business and with the organization which is set up in the bill , will control that production . In other words , I seek to bring into force and effect the ...
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... contract so far as the farmer is con- cerned . If I make a good contract , so far as the farmer is con- cerned , I must then provide for some other kind of a scheme to pro- tect the Government in making the contract . I provide that the ...
... contract so far as the farmer is con- cerned . If I make a good contract , so far as the farmer is con- cerned , I must then provide for some other kind of a scheme to pro- tect the Government in making the contract . I provide that the ...
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Page 179 - If the Secretary of the Interior shall withhold a certificate from any State or Territory of its appropriation the facts and reasons therefor shall be reported to the President, and the amount involved shall be kept separate in the Treasury until the close of the next Congress, in order that the State or Territory may, if it should so desire, appeal to Congress from the determination of the Secretary of the Interior.
Page 179 - Territories in which they are respectively located, and to such individuals actually engaged in farming as may request the same and as far as the means of the station will permit. Such bulletins or reports and the annual reports of said stations shall be transmitted in the mails of the United States free of charge for postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster General may from time to time prescribe.
Page 179 - SEC. 4. That on or before the first day of July in each year, after the passage of this act, the Secretary of the Interior shall ascertain and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury as to each State and Territory whether it is entitled to receive its share of the annual appropriation for colleges, or of institutions for colored students, under this act, and the amount which thereupon each Is entitled, respectively to receive.
Page 179 - No portion of said fund nor the interest thereon, shall be applied directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 180 - An Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.
Page 180 - That the Secretary of Agriculture shall make an annual report to Congress on the receipts and expenditures and work of the agricultural experiment stations in all of the States and Territories, and also whether the appropriation of any State or Territory has been withheld ; and if so, the reason therefor.
Page 265 - That if the Secretary of Agriculture shall have reason to believe that any such association monopolizes or restrains trade in interstate or foreign commerce to such an extent that the price of any agricultural product is unduly enhanced by reason thereof...
Page 179 - It shall be the duty of each of said stations, annually, on or before the first day of February, to make to the governor of the State or territory in which it is located a full and detailed Reports. report of its operations, including a statement of receipts and expenditures...
Page 798 - That persons engaged in the production of agricultural products as farmers, planters, ranchmen, dairymen, nut or fruit growers may act together in associations, corporate or otherwise, with or without capital stock, in collectively processing, preparing for market, handling, and marketing in interstate and foreign commerce such products of persons so engaged.
Page 180 - SEC. 10. Nothing in this act shall be held or construed as binding the United States to continue any payments from the treasury to any or all the States or institutions mentioned in this act, but Congress may at any time amend, suspend or repeal any or all of the provisions of this act.