Activities of the Department of Agriculture: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1951 - 217 pages |
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... plants , rapid depreciation is permitted in order to reduce tax liability . Under the Defense Production Act , Government agencies encourage financial institutions to lend money to defense producers by guaranteeing the lenders against ...
... plants , rapid depreciation is permitted in order to reduce tax liability . Under the Defense Production Act , Government agencies encourage financial institutions to lend money to defense producers by guaranteeing the lenders against ...
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... plant and equipment is only a third of the return that corporations realized on their capital investment in 1950 . Zero for the farmer's management ability compares with the sal- aries of business firm managers , who represent one of ...
... plant and equipment is only a third of the return that corporations realized on their capital investment in 1950 . Zero for the farmer's management ability compares with the sal- aries of business firm managers , who represent one of ...
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... planting and cultivating , even our harvesting machinery , will be in fairly good supply for this season . I hope that is true - for example , as you know , one baler releases three men in the hay field . Mr. ANDRESEN . But you have to ...
... planting and cultivating , even our harvesting machinery , will be in fairly good supply for this season . I hope that is true - for example , as you know , one baler releases three men in the hay field . Mr. ANDRESEN . But you have to ...
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... plant is to keep on operating and , particularly , if it is expected to turn out increasing supplies year after year . Farmers as a group are operating on a very small margin all the time , and in recent years it has been narrowing . It ...
... plant is to keep on operating and , particularly , if it is expected to turn out increasing supplies year after year . Farmers as a group are operating on a very small margin all the time , and in recent years it has been narrowing . It ...
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... plant quite an acreage , I am sure . The infestation of the boll weevil is great down there , and it is entirely conceivable that many people who lost their crops last year may get financing to get their crops planted , but when the ...
... plant quite an acreage , I am sure . The infestation of the boll weevil is great down there , and it is entirely conceivable that many people who lost their crops last year may get financing to get their crops planted , but when the ...
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ABERNETHY agency agricultural commodities agricultural mobilization committees amount ANDRESEN April April 23 average bales BEACH beans Buggs Island build bushels butter cents CHAIRMAN cheese Commodity Credit Corporation Congress consumer corn cost-of-living index cotton crop dairy Dairyland DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE draft board electricity essential farm workers estimated export facilities farm commodities farm income farm operators farm prices farm production farmers figures GEISSLER Hershey's office HILL HOEVEN HOPE hundredweight increase inventories investment KRUSE labor loan LOVRE MARKETING ADMINISTRATION milk needs nonfarm parity percent plant POAGE pounds power companies price support price-support program purchase quantity question REA borrowers REA cooperatives retail RURAL ELECTRIFICATION RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ADMINISTRATION Secretary BRANNAN Selective Service Selective Service System selling sorghums statement storage supply support program thing tion Total transmission lines wheat WICKARD World War II
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Page 60 - Corporation to: ( 1 ) support the prices of agricultural commodities through loans, purchases, payments, and other operations; (2) make available materials and facilities required in connection with the production and marketing of agricultural commodities; (3) procure agricultural commodities for sale to other government agencies, foreign governments, and domestic, foreign, or international relief or rehabilitation agencies, and to meet domestic requirements...
Page 60 - Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act, 15 USC 714, as an agency and instrumentality of the United States within the Department of Agriculture for the purpose of stabilizing, supporting and protecting farm income and prices, assisting in the maintenance of balanced and adequate supplies of agricultural commodities and facilitating the orderly distribution thereof.
Page 53 - ... commodities, the Corporation should give consideration to the establishing of such policies with respect to prices, terms, and conditions as it determines will not discourage or deter manufacturers, processors, and dealers from acquiring and carrying normal inventories of the commodity of the current crop. The Corporation shall not sell any basic agricultural commodity or storable nonbasic commodity at less than 5 per centum above the current support price for such commodity, plus reasonable...
Page 60 - Remove and dispose of or aid in the removal or disposition of surplus agricultural commodities. (e) Increase the domestic consumption of agricultural commodities by expanding or aiding in the expansion of domestic markets or by developing or aiding in the development of new and additional markets, marketing facilities, and uses for such commodities.
Page 125 - No loan shall be made in any State which now has or may hereafter have a State regulatory body having authority to regulate telephone service and to require certificates of convenience and necessity to the applicant unless such certificate from such agency is first obtained. In a State in which there is no such agency or regulatory body legally authorized to issue such certificates to the applicant, no loan shall be made under this section unless the Governor of the telephone bank shall determine...
Page 61 - And provided further, That to encourage the storage of grain on farms, where it can be stored at the lowest cost, the Corporation shall make loans to grain growers needing storage facilities when such growers shall apply to the Corporation for financing the construction or purchase of suitable storage, and these loans shall be deducted from the proceeds of price support loans or purchase agreements made between the Corporation and the growers.
Page 55 - Corporation will be subject to terms and conditions prescribed by the Corporation. These terms include, among others, payment by cash or irrevocable letter of credit before delivery of the commodity, removal of the commodity from Commodity Credit Corporation storage within a reasonable period of time, and, in sales for export, proof of exportation.
Page 16 - Among the countries covered, the purchasing power of hourly earnings was lowest in the USSR, where workers had to work four to seven times as long as United States workers to buy a given quantity of food.