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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... requirements could be enforced by the Department . For example , if the commodity exchanges wish to tomorrow , they could completely reverse the position they took some weeks ago , and while we do not believe they contemplate doing it ...
... requirements could be enforced by the Department . For example , if the commodity exchanges wish to tomorrow , they could completely reverse the position they took some weeks ago , and while we do not believe they contemplate doing it ...
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... requirements to 33 percent , there was a substantial reduction in the amount of speculative trading . The CHAIRMAN . I notice that the Attorney General in Boston on October 8 , and I was there at the time , alluded to the grain trade as ...
... requirements to 33 percent , there was a substantial reduction in the amount of speculative trading . The CHAIRMAN . I notice that the Attorney General in Boston on October 8 , and I was there at the time , alluded to the grain trade as ...
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... requirements so far as holding prices down is concerned ? Secretary ANDERSON . I could not answer that because you ... requirements had not been altered . Representative BENDER . What has been the effect of raising mar- ginal ...
... requirements so far as holding prices down is concerned ? Secretary ANDERSON . I could not answer that because you ... requirements had not been altered . Representative BENDER . What has been the effect of raising mar- ginal ...
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... requirements and supporting by that statement . Senator MYERS . Would you say that statement is in full accord with your recommendations of today ? Secretary ANDERSON . It is . Representative HORAN . As you know , the Pacific coast in ...
... requirements and supporting by that statement . Senator MYERS . Would you say that statement is in full accord with your recommendations of today ? Secretary ANDERSON . It is . Representative HORAN . As you know , the Pacific coast in ...
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... requirements with respect to speculative transactions in further contracts on commodity exchanges . The CHAIRMAN . That will be placed in the record . ( The proposed bill is as follows :) A BILL To amend the Commodity Exchange Act , as ...
... requirements with respect to speculative transactions in further contracts on commodity exchanges . The CHAIRMAN . That will be placed in the record . ( The proposed bill is as follows :) A BILL To amend the Commodity Exchange Act , as ...
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...