Anti-inflation Program as Recommended in the President's Message of November 17, 1947. Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, Congress of the United States, Eightieth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to Sec. 5 (A) of Public Law 304, 79th Congress...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948 - 643 páginas Considers proposals to tighten Federal control of consumer credit, increase Federal regulation of futures trading of commodity exchanges, and extend Federal authority to control the allocation, inventory, and transport of scarce commodities. |
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... reason why it should be closed . There were times during the war in which it was felt desirable to suspend all operations in certain commodities , and the grain firms and the exchanges ran with speculation in those commodi- ties ...
... reason why it should be closed . There were times during the war in which it was felt desirable to suspend all operations in certain commodities , and the grain firms and the exchanges ran with speculation in those commodi- ties ...
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... reason why I think the Administration ought to step on them and prohibit them from making any more liquor when you close our own distilleries down . Secretary ANDERSON . Well , we deal to a great degree with our food in countries that ...
... reason why I think the Administration ought to step on them and prohibit them from making any more liquor when you close our own distilleries down . Secretary ANDERSON . Well , we deal to a great degree with our food in countries that ...
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... reason for my question about the open range and feeding your livestock on grass thereon , was that in Denver we were talking to very practical livestock men , and we asked them a question , if a greater use of the range were possible ...
... reason for my question about the open range and feeding your livestock on grass thereon , was that in Denver we were talking to very practical livestock men , and we asked them a question , if a greater use of the range were possible ...
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... reason- able limit would not prevent large numbers of small traders from entering the market during the periods of widespread speculative fever . It appears that the only way to prevent a price debacle following advances in- duced by ...
... reason- able limit would not prevent large numbers of small traders from entering the market during the periods of widespread speculative fever . It appears that the only way to prevent a price debacle following advances in- duced by ...
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... reason of price controls , and volume of trading in most commodities was rela- tively small during the entire war . Senator BALDWIN . In other words , you had complete control of it during that period ? Mr. MEHL . We had no control over ...
... reason of price controls , and volume of trading in most commodities was rela- tively small during the entire war . Senator BALDWIN . In other words , you had complete control of it during that period ? Mr. MEHL . We had no control over ...
Términos y frases comunes
Agriculture allocation amount areas authority bank credit bank reserves bankers believe Board bonds BROWN bushels cars cash CATE cents CHAIRMAN CHAPMAN coal cocoa committee Commodity Credit Corporation Commodity Exchange Commodity Exchange Act Congress consumer cotton crop debt demand deposits Department ECCLES economy effect excess expansion export controls farmers FARRINGTON Federal Reserve Board Federal Reserve System feed futures contracts futures market going Government securities grain exchanges hedging important increase industry inflation inflationary limited loans margin requirements MCCLINTOCK MEHL ment million operations percent present President production proposed purchase question reduce Representative HORAN result Secretary ANDERSON Secretary HARRIMAN sell Senator FLANDERS Senator KEM Senator MYERS Senator O'MAHONEY Senator SPARKMAN Senator WATKINS shortage situation SKYBERG special reserve requirement speculation statement steel STURTEVANT sugar supply thing tion tons trade Treasury UHLMANN United wheat
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Página 90 - The CHAIRMAN. Are there any other questions? If not, we thank you very much, Mr.
Página 68 - ... consisting of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General...
Página 639 - For the reasons hereinafter enumerated, transactions in securities as commonly conducted upon securities exchanges and over-the-counter markets are affected with a national public interest which makes it necessary to provide for regulation and control of such transactions and of practices and matters related thereto...
Página 18 - Such record shall be required to be kept for a period of three years from the date thereof, or for a longer period if the Secretary of Agriculture shall so direct, and shall at all times be open to the inspection of any representative of the United States Department of Agriculture or United States Department of Justice.
Página 247 - The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board...
Página 599 - OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, THE PRESIDENTS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS, AND THE FEDERAL ADVISORY COUNCIL •{Reprinted from Federal Reserve Bulletin for January 1941.
Página 165 - I thank you, gentlemen. Senator SMITH. Mr. Thomas, there are two or three questions I would like to ask you. You believe strongly, I take it, in public education or schools supported by taxation ? Mr. THOMAS. Believe in it? Why, Senator, it is the salvation of the country. Senator SMITH. What do you think would be the proportion of the children who would not be educated at all if our public-school system...
Página 98 - We have two important witnesses. (Thereupon at 12:30 pm a recess was taken until 3 pm of the same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION The committee reconvened at 3 pm upon the expiration of the recess. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order.
Página 601 - Such acquisitions should be insulated from the credit systems, and, once insulated, it 'would be advisable if they were not restored to the credit system except after consultation with the Federal Open Market Committee. 4. The financing of both the ordinary requirements of Government and the extraordinary needs of the defense program should be accomplished by drawing upon the existing large volume of deposits rather than by creating additional deposits through bank purchases of Government securities....
Página 18 - ... orders for the purchase or sale of any commodity for future delivery on or subject to the rules of any board of trade...