Extension of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942: Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventh-eighth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1764, a Bill to Amend the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 (Public Law 421, Seventy-seventh Congress) as Amended by the Act of October 2, 1941 (Public Law 729, Seventh-seventh Congress, March 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, April 17, 18, 19,20, 24, 25, 26, 27, and 28, 1944U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944 - 1602 pagini |
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Pagina 72
... Prices have stayed relatively stable and they were taken in hand early . The industry has been very cooperative in ... ceiling on your basic grains . Senator BANKHEAD . Except corn . Mr. BROWNLEE . That came in in April when corn ...
... Prices have stayed relatively stable and they were taken in hand early . The industry has been very cooperative in ... ceiling on your basic grains . Senator BANKHEAD . Except corn . Mr. BROWNLEE . That came in in April when corn ...
Pagina 92
... price increase on the ground that the ceiling is too low to be generally fair and equitable . As I said yesterday , we do not think that the industry is entitled to a price increase merely to enable it to earn a higher return on its ...
... price increase on the ground that the ceiling is too low to be generally fair and equitable . As I said yesterday , we do not think that the industry is entitled to a price increase merely to enable it to earn a higher return on its ...
Pagina 93
... CEILING PRICES to illustrate : - INDUSTRY X NETWORTH EARNINGS RETURN ON CEILING NET WORTH PRICE In Peacetime $ 500 Million $ 50,000,000 10.0 % NONE In 1943 $ 600 ( Sales increased ) Million $ 75,000,000 12.5 % $ 20,00 But at Present ...
... CEILING PRICES to illustrate : - INDUSTRY X NETWORTH EARNINGS RETURN ON CEILING NET WORTH PRICE In Peacetime $ 500 Million $ 50,000,000 10.0 % NONE In 1943 $ 600 ( Sales increased ) Million $ 75,000,000 12.5 % $ 20,00 But at Present ...
Pagina 94
... price for a particular product is questioned . We think that a ceiling price for a particular product is generally fair and equitable so long as it does not result in out - of - pocket loss for any producer except the highest - cost ...
... price for a particular product is questioned . We think that a ceiling price for a particular product is generally fair and equitable so long as it does not result in out - of - pocket loss for any producer except the highest - cost ...
Pagina 97
... Ceiling Prices for Individual Sellers . " ADJUSTMENT OF CEILING PRICES FOR INDIVIDUAL SELLERS ( Industry's earnings are above base period ) Frozen Ceilings Total Firm Price Cost Margin A $ 1.25 $ 1.10 $ .15 B 1.20 1.15 .05 C 1.15 1.20 ...
... Ceiling Prices for Individual Sellers . " ADJUSTMENT OF CEILING PRICES FOR INDIVIDUAL SELLERS ( Industry's earnings are above base period ) Frozen Ceilings Total Firm Price Cost Margin A $ 1.25 $ 1.10 $ .15 B 1.20 1.15 .05 C 1.15 1.20 ...
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adjustments agency agricultural amendments approved average BOWLES BROWNFIELD BROWNLEE bushel ceiling prices CHAIRMAN chart Colonel HOUSTON committee commodities Commodity Credit Corporation Congress consumer corn cost of living crop DAVIS ECCLES effective Executive Order farm farmers feed Food Administration gasoline going Goss Government grades hundredweight income increase industry inflation inflationary JONES Labor Board lambs lend-lease Little Steel formula livestock mark-up meat MONTAGUE NELSON net operating income Nonrecourse loans October Office of Price operation parity percent period Price Administration price ceilings Price Control Act problem production profit question rates rationing regulations rent control retail Senator BANKHEAD Senator BARKLEY Senator BUCK Senator BUTLER Senator DANAHER Senator HAWKES Senator MALONEY Senator MAYBANK Senator RADCLIFFE Senator TAFT situation stabilization subsidies supply support prices taxes thing tion wage War Labor Board War Production Board workers
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Pagina 246 - November 1, 1942; to issue a general order stabilizing prices, wages, and salaries, affecting the cost of living; and, except as otherwise provided in this Act, such stabilization shall so far as practicable be on the basis of the levels which existed on September 15, 1942.
Pagina 748 - It is hereby declared to be in the interest of the national defense and security and necessary to the effective prosecution of the present war, and the purposes of this Act are, to stabilize prices and to prevent speculative, unwarranted, and abnormal increases in prices and rents; to eliminate and prevent profiteering, hoarding, manipulation, speculation, and other disruptive practices resulting from abnormal market conditions or scarcities caused by or contributing to the national emergency...
Pagina 327 - The powers granted in this section shall not be used or made to operate to compel changes in the business practices, cost practices or methods, or means or aids to distribution, established in any industry...
Pagina 248 - Nor shall anything herein be construed to prevent such agencies, subject to the general policies and directives of the Economic Stabilization Director, from authorizing reasonable adjustments of wages and salaries in case of promotions, reclassifications, merit increases, incentive wages or the like, provided that such adjustments do not increase the. level of production costs appreciably or furnish the basis either to increase prices or to resist otherwise justifiable reductions in prices.
Pagina 560 - The committee shall report to the Senate as soon as practicable the results of its investigation, together with its recommendations, if any, for necessary remedial legislation.
Pagina 475 - Act to enforce any liability or duty created by, or to enjoin any violation of, this Act or any rule, regulation, order, or subpena thereunder.
Pagina 462 - America is a stockholder, knowing such claim to be false, fictitious, or fraudulent; or whoever shall knowingly and willfully falsify or conceal or cover up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact, or make or cause to be made any false or fraudulent statements or representations...
Pagina 667 - ... which it has jurisdiction under this title. The court shall have a seal, hold sessions at such places as it may specify, and appoint a clerk and such other employees as it deems necessary or proper.
Pagina 414 - ... make adjustments for such relevant factors as he may determine and deem to be of general applicability, including the following: Speculative fluctuations, general increases or decreases in costs of production, distribution, and transportation, and general increases or decreases in profits earned by sellers of the commodity or commodities, during and subsequent to the year ended October 1, 1941.
Pagina 244 - Board, and unless the National War Labor Board has approved such increases or decreases. 2. The National War Labor Board shall not approve any increase in the wage rates prevailing on September 15, 1942, unless such increase is necessary to correct maladjustments or inequalities, to eliminate substandards of living, to correct gross inequities, or to aid in the effective prosecution of the war.