Continuance of Commodity Credit Corporation: Hearings Before ... , 78-1 on H.R. 2725(superseded by H.R. 2869) ... , May 18 ... 28, 19431943 - 366 pages |
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agency Agricultural Adjustment Act agricultural commodities amended amount approved authority average BALDWIN bales beans bill billion Board bushels cattle ceiling prices cents CHAIRMAN Cheddar cheese cheese committee Commodity Credit Corporation Congress consumer contract corn cotton CRAWFORD crop dairy DAVIS Directors dollars Economic Executive Order farm farmers feed fiscal flaxseed Food Administrator FORD funds GIFFORD going Goss Government HANDSCHIN hogs HUTSON income increase inflation June 30 labor lend-lease livestock loans losses ment milk Miss SUMNER MONRONEY O'NEAL Office of Price operations parity price PATMAN payments peanuts pounds President Price Administration price ceilings Price Control processors production purchase purposes question RATHELL Reconstruction Finance Corporation respect Secretary of Agriculture sell SHIELDS situation sold soybeans SPENCE statement Steagall subsidies supply support price thing tion Treasury War Production Board wheat WOLCOTT
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Page 28 - ... to increase the consumption of industrial and agricultural products by increasing purchasing power, to reduce and relieve unemployment, to improve standards of labor, and otherwise to rehabilitate industry and to conserve natural resources.
Page 48 - 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, the...
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 28 - That the present acute economic emergency being iu part the consequence of a severe and increasing disparity between the prices of agricultural and other commodities, which disparity has largely destroyed the purchasing power of farmers for Industrial products, has broken down the orderly exchange of commodities, and has seriously impaired the agricultural assets supporting the national credit structure...
Page 32 - This 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 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...
Page 42 - Corporation was originally capitalized for $3,000,000 subscribed by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration. The...