Defense Production Act Amendments of 1952: Hearings ... 82d Congress, 2d Session, on H.R. 6546, a Bill to Amend and Extend the Defense Production Act of 1950, as Amended, and the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, as Amended, Volume 1United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952 - 1656 pages |
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Page 799 - Commission, on the ground that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture...
Page 551 - It is the policy of the United States to oppose acts of aggression and to promote peace by insuring respect for world law and the peaceful settlement of differences among nations. To that end this Government is pledged to support collective action through the United Nations and through regional arrangements for mutual defense in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations. The United States is determined to develop and maintain whatever military and economic strength is found to be necessary...
Page 275 - ... are not reasonable in view of the price of feeds, the available supplies of feeds, and other economic conditions which affect market supply and demand for milk and its products in the marketing area...
Page 798 - States, upon the filing of an appropriate pleading, may declare the rights and other legal relations of any interested party seeking such declaration, whether or not further relief is or could be sought. Any such declaration shall have the force and effect of a final judgment or decree and shall be reviewable as such.
Page 632 - Provided, That no common carrier or other public utility shall make any general increase in its rates or charges which were in effect on September 15, 1942, unless it first gives thirty days notice to the President, or such agency as he may designate, and consents to the timely intervention by such agency before the Federal, State, or municipal authority having jurisdiction to consider such increase.
Page 192 - June 30, 1953, by section 614 of the Defense Housing and Community Facilities and Services Act of 1951 (Public Law 139, 82d Cong...
Page 209 - Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect insofar as is possible, the interests of small-business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise, to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for supplies and services for the Government be placed with small-business enterprises, and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of the Nation.
Page 799 - No person shall be excused from complying with any requirement under this section...
Page 748 - Administrator and each such regulation or order is to be accompanied by a statement of the considerations involved in its Issuance. This statement will afford those subject to a maximum price regulation an adequate opportunity to know the basis for its adoption and therefore, intelligently to> formulate, in the form of protests as provided in section 203 (a) of the bill, any objections which they may have to such regulation.
Page 798 - Whenever the Administrator has reason to believe that any person is liable to punishment under this subsection, he may certify the facts to the Attorney General, who may, in his discretion, cause appropriate proceedings to be brought.