Extension of Public Law 480, 83rd Congress: Hearings Before ..., 90-2 on S. 2891, S. 2986, and S. 3069 ..., March 13, 14, and 15, 1968 |
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agencies Agreement signed agricultural commodities agricultural products amendment amount areas Assistance Act bill CHAIRMAN commercial committee Commodity Credit Corporation Congress cooperation cost cotton crop currency sales dairy products Department of Agriculture developing countries dollar credit economic development effort ELLENDER exports family planning farm products farmers feed fertilizer fiscal food aid Food for Peace food production foreign currencies funds GAUD Ghana grain hard currency hunger hungry IBRD important improve income increase India Indonesia Korea legislation LEWIS loans local currency LYNN market development programs ment milk million tons Morocco nations Pakistan payments percent population problem projects proposed Public Law 480 purchase question recipient countries record rice Rostow rupees Secretary FREEMAN seed self-help Senator HOLLAND Senator MILLER Senator YOUNG soft currencies statement surplus tion Tunisia U.S. Government U.S. Senate United Vietnam wheat world food
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Page 91 - The CHAIRMAN. Are there any further questions? If not, we thank you very much, Mr.
Page 81 - Statement Adopted by the General Board of the National Council of Churches of Christ In the USA, February 24, 1966 : "Many factors have created a 'revolution of rising expectations.
Page 145 - The Congress hereby declares it to be the policy of the United States to expand international trade; to develop and expand export markets for United States agricultural commodities ; to use the abundant agricultural productivity of the United States to combat hunger and malnutrition and to encourage economic development in the developing countries, with particular emphasis on assistance to those countries that are determined to improve their own agricultural production; and to promote in other ways...
Page 2 - President shall: (a) take into account efforts of friendly countries to help themselves toward a greater degree of self-reliance, including efforts to meet their problems of food production and population growth; (b) take steps to assure a progressive transition from sales for foreign currencies to sales for dollars (or to the extent that transition to sales for dollars...
Page 1 - Act, as amended, is amended by striking out the word "and...
Page 201 - Americans should be assured ample opportunity to develop to the fullest extent possible their intellectual capacities in all areas of knowledge pertaining to other countries...
Page 127 - The scale, severity, and duration of the world food problem are so great that a massive, long-range, innovative effort unprecedented in human history will be required to master it.
Page 9 - ... sales is not possible, transition to sales for foreign currencies on credit terms no less favorable to the United States than those for development loans made under section 201 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and on terms which permit conversion to dollars at the exchange rate applicable to the sales agreement...
Page 72 - ... the establishment of facilities for aiding in the utilization, distribution, or otherwise increasing the consumption of, and markets for, United States agricultural products...