Continuance of Commodity Credit Corporation: Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, Seventy-eighth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2725 (superseded by H.R. 2869), a Bill to Continue the Commodity Credit Corporation as an Agency of the United States, to Revise the Basis of Annual Appraisal of Its Assests, and to Provide for an Audit by the General Accounting Office of the Financial Transactions of the Corporation , and for Other PurposesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1943 - 366 pages |
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Page 29 - Agriculture under this title, to establish and maintain such balance between the production and consumption of agricultural commodities, and such marketing conditions therefor, as will reestablish prices to farmers at a level that will give agricultural commodities a purchasing power with respect to articles that farmers buy, equivalent to the purchasing power of agricultural commodities in the base period...
Page 47 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law...
Page 58 - An Act to Amend the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, to Aid in Preventing Inflation, and for Other Purposes...
Page 37 - The amount of notes, bonds, debentures, and other such obligations which the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized and empowered to issue and to have outstanding at any one time under existing law is hereby increased by an amount sufficient to carry out the provisions of this section.
Page 45 - Such further measures and dispositions as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall deem to...
Page 32 - The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change, or repeal any provision contained in this certificate of incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.
Page 42 - ... income shall be exempt from all taxation now or hereafter imposed by the United States, by any Territory, dependency or possession thereof, or by any State, county, municipality or local taxing authority ; except that any real property of the corporation shall be subject to State, Territorial, county, municipal or local taxation to the same extent, according to its value, as other real property is taxed.
Page 42 - Is authorized to use as a public debt transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, and the purposes for which securities may be issued under that Act, as amended, are extended to include any purchases of such notes and obligations.
Page 28 - Congress to remove obstructions to the free flow of interstate and foreign commerce which tend to diminish the amount thereof ; and to provide for the general welfare by promoting the organization of industry for the purpose of co-operative action among trade groups, to induce and maintain united action of labor and management under adequate governmental sanctions and supervision, to eliminate unfair competitive practices, to promote the fullest possible utilization of the present productive capacity...
Page 47 - To effectuate the policy set forth in section 1 hereof the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Interior, acting jointly through the agency of the Army and Navy Munitions Board, are hereby authorized and directed to determine which materials are strategic and critical under the provisions of this Act...