Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1969 |
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ABERNETHY acreage acres adequate adjustment Agriculture Act amended American areas average base plan beef believe bill BURLISON bushel cents CHAIRMAN class I base committee commodity Commodity Credit Corporation Congress consumer corn cost cotton farmers cotton producers cotton program crop cropland dairy Department of Agriculture domestic allotment economic eligible export Farm Bureau farm income farm program Farmers Union Federal feed grains feel fiber FINDLEY food stamp program going Government gram Grange growers HEINKEL hunger increase industry KLEPPE land retirement legislation loan malnutrition MAYNE MELCHER ment milk MYERS National Grange nutrition operation organization parity participate payment limitations percent Poage pounds present present program president price support problem production proposal PURCELL question recommendations rural Secretary HARDIN Secretary of Agriculture SHUMAN SISK soybeans Stamp Act statement supply surplus Thank thing tion welfare wheat ZWACH
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Page 84 - The moment is at hand to put an end to hunger in America itself for all time
Page 332 - He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack : but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
Page 599 - Constitution which, we repeat, is the Supreme Law of the land. The Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Pennsylvania empower the city to take and appropriate private land for public purposes.
Page 79 - ... regard to whether such area is under the food stamp program or a system of direct distribution, to provide, in the immediate vicinity of their place of permanent residence, either directly or through a State or local welfare agency, an adequate diet to needy children and low-income persons determined by the Secretary of Agriculture to be suffering, through no fault of their own, from general and continued hunger resulting from insufficient food.
Page 531 - Establishing or providing for the establishment of research and development projects, and advertising (excluding brand advertising), sales promotion, educational, and other programs, designed to improve or promote the domestic marketing and consumption of milk and its products, to be financed by producers in a manner and at a rate specified in the order, on all producer milk under the order. Producer contributions under this subparagraph may be deducted from funds due producers in computing total...
Page 331 - We do not want to quibble over words, but "malnutrition" is not quite what we found : the boys and girls we saw were hungry — weak, in pain, sick ; their lives are being shortened ; they are, in fact, visibly and predictably losing their health, their energy, their spirits. They are suffering from...
Page 5 - Congress further finds that increased utilization of food i n establishing and maintaining adequate national levels of nutrition will promote the distribution in a beneficial manner of our agricultural abundances and will strengthen our agricultural economy, as well as result in more orderly marketing and distribution of food.
Page 333 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress, in order to promote the general welfare, that the Nation's abundance of food should be utilized...
Page 315 - ... assistance, aid to families with dependent children, aid to the blind, aid to the permanently and totally disabled, and...
Page 553 - It is the purpose of this title to assist in the establishment, preservation, and strengthening of small business concerns and improve the managerial skills employed in such enterprises, with special attention to small business concerns ( 1 ) located in urban or rural areas with high proportions of unemployed or low-income individuals, or (2) owned by low-income individuals; and to mobilize for these objectives private as well as public managerial skills and resources.