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Page 942 - No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
Page 680 - Committee shall, as may be necessary for the effectuation of this section, furnish assistance to the Committee in accordance with section 214 of the Act of May 3, 1945, 59 Stat. 134 (31 USC 691). Unless otherwise directed by the President, the Committee shall cease to exist 30 days after the date on which it submits its report to the President pursuant to this section.
Page 270 - ... which cannot be met for temporary periods of time by private, cooperative, or other responsible sources (including...
Page 20 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress, as a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation's children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities and other food, by assisting the States, through grantsin-aid and other means, in providing an adequate supply of foods and other facilities for the establishment, maintenance, operation, and expansion of nonprofit school lunch programs.
Page 512 - The perishability of the commodity ; 5. The importance of the commodity to agriculture and the national economy ; 6. The ability to dispose of stocks acquired through a price support operation: 7. The need for offsetting temporary losses of export markets ; and 8. The ability and willingness of producers to keep supplies in line with demand.
Page 512 - ... (1) the supply of the commodity in relation to the demand therefor, (2) the price levels at which other commodities are being supported and, in the case of feed grains, the feed values of such grains in relation to corn, (3) the availability of funds, (4) the perishability of the commodity, (5) the importance of the commodity to agriculture and...
Page 270 - ... sugarcane, one-third of the normal yield of commercially recoverable sugar or liquid sugar per acre for the farm, as determined by the Secretary; and (2) with respect to such crop deficiencies of harvested acreage of sugar beets or sugarcane, the excess of 80 per centum of the normal yield of commercially recoverable sugar or liquid sugar for such acreage for the farm, as determined by the Secretary, over the actual yield.
Page 679 - Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows: Section 1. Establishment of Committee, (a) There is hereby established the President's Committee on Consumer Interests (hereinafter referred to as the "Committee") (b) The Committee shall be composed of...
Page 928 - Once in operation, it will enable us to : (1) Identify our national goals with precision and on a continuing basis (2) Choose among those goals the ones that are most urgent (3) Search for alternative means of reaching those goals most effectively at the least cost. (4) Inform ourselves not merely on next year's costs, but on the second, and third, and subsequent year's costs of our programs. (5) Measure the performance of our programs to insure a dollar's worth of service for each dollar spent.
Page 22 - June 30, 1970, and for each succeeding fiscal year such sums as may be necessary to enable the Secretary of Agriculture, under such rules and regulations as he may deem in the public interest, to encourage consumption of fluid milk by children in the United States in (1) nonprofit schools of high school grade and under, and (2) nonprofit nursery schools, child-care centers, settlement houses, summer camps, and similar nonprofit institutions devoted to the care and training of children. For the purposes...

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