To Repeal the Mixed-flour Law: Hearing[s] Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Sixty-fouth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 9409U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - 576 pages |
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... sell it in the packages marked and put up by the manufac- turers . There is no special tax imposed upon the dealers , therefore there is no definition of dealers , and so far as we are concerned a man may wholesale it or retail it ...
... sell it in the packages marked and put up by the manufac- turers . There is no special tax imposed upon the dealers , therefore there is no definition of dealers , and so far as we are concerned a man may wholesale it or retail it ...
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... sell that without any label ? Mr. KEITH . Under the present law that is in force ? Mr. FORDNEY . No ; if you repeal this law . Mr. KEITH . Yes , sir ; just the same as he does under the old law . Mr. FORDNEY . Why ? Mr. KEITH . Because ...
... sell that without any label ? Mr. KEITH . Under the present law that is in force ? Mr. FORDNEY . No ; if you repeal this law . Mr. KEITH . Yes , sir ; just the same as he does under the old law . Mr. FORDNEY . Why ? Mr. KEITH . Because ...
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... selling for $ 1 a bushel and potatoes for 40 cents a bushel and corn 50 or 60 cents a bushel , and when an amount as great as 50 per cent of these cheaper articles might be used in the making of flour and no person on earth except a ...
... selling for $ 1 a bushel and potatoes for 40 cents a bushel and corn 50 or 60 cents a bushel , and when an amount as great as 50 per cent of these cheaper articles might be used in the making of flour and no person on earth except a ...
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... sell anything but pure wheat flour , and the packages of the members of the league bore the stamp of the league as a guaranty against mixture of any kind . The wheat millers also endeavored to secure legislation from Con- gress to ...
... sell anything but pure wheat flour , and the packages of the members of the league bore the stamp of the league as a guaranty against mixture of any kind . The wheat millers also endeavored to secure legislation from Con- gress to ...
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... sell it separately from wheat flour . Mr. GENUNG . We do . Mr. FORDNEY . What is the idea of mixing it ? Mr. GENUNG . There is an odium , apparently , under this law , about corn flour . Mr. FORDNEY . They would not buy it when they can ...
... sell it separately from wheat flour . Mr. GENUNG . We do . Mr. FORDNEY . What is the idea of mixing it ? Mr. GENUNG . There is an odium , apparently , under this law , about corn flour . Mr. FORDNEY . They would not buy it when they can ...
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20 per cent adulteration Agriculture amount association bakers baking barytes blend brand bushels cereal CHAIRMAN cheaper chemical chemist committee Congress consumer contains corn flour corn meal corn millers corn products cornstarch cost difference drugs act export FAIRCLOTH Flour Mills flourine food and drugs food law food product FORDNEY GENUNG glucose gluten grade grain grind HASKELL HELVERING HILL housewife HUTCHINSON Kansas KEITH KELLY label LANNEN letter LIND loaf of bread LONGWORTH manufacture Milling Co MINER mineraline Minn Minneapolis misbranded Miss CAUBLE mixed flour mixed-flour law mixture MOORE nutritious Ohio package patent flour percentage pounds present law protein pure wheat flour pure-food law question Rainey bill regulations repeal revenue Roller Mills Roos sell sirup SLOAN sold SPARKS stamp starch statement thing tion to-day trade WAGNER WEAREN WESENER wheat millers white corn WILEY winter wheat
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Page 487 - First. If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength.
Page 489 - When construing and enforcing the provisions of this Act, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other person acting for or employed by any corporation, company, society, or association, within the scope of his employment or office, shall in every case be also deemed to be the act, omission,, or failure of such corporation, company, society, or association as well as that of the person.
Page 487 - If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal or vegetable substance, or any portion of an animal unfit for food, whether manufactured or not, or if it is the product of a diseased animal, or one that has died otherwise than by slaughter. SEC. 8. That the term
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Page 488 - Second. In the case of articles labeled, branded or tagged so as to plainly indicate that they are compounds, imitations or blends, and the word "compound," "imitation
Page 559 - An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes...
Page 488 - Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of the package as originally put up shall have been removed, in whole or in part, and other contents shall have been placed in such package...
Page 487 - drug," as used in this Act, shall include all medicines and preparations recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary for internal or external use, and any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used for the cure, mitigation, or prevention of disease of either man or other animals. The term "food...
Page 488 - First. In the case of mixtures or compounds which may be now or from time to time hereafter known as articles of food under their own distinctive names...