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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... period was 11.9 cents . A pound of round steak was 24.4 cents at the start of the war , and the top price was 45 cents . One pound of sliced ham was 27.4 cents at the start of the war and went up to 60.4 cents . One pound of butter at ...
... period was 11.9 cents . A pound of round steak was 24.4 cents at the start of the war , and the top price was 45 cents . One pound of sliced ham was 27.4 cents at the start of the war and went up to 60.4 cents . One pound of butter at ...
Pagina 4
... period . See chart 10 , appendix , page 1493 . Here is a chart that shows corporation profits turned to losses . All corporations , after taxes , on 1919 earnings , showed profits of $ 5,896 , - 000,000 . In 1920 the total profits were ...
... period . See chart 10 , appendix , page 1493 . Here is a chart that shows corporation profits turned to losses . All corporations , after taxes , on 1919 earnings , showed profits of $ 5,896 , - 000,000 . In 1920 the total profits were ...
Pagina 8
... period the adjustments had not been made , the O. P. A. was to go in with rent control . Now , this meant , during the first 6 months of that period , the establishment of 287 defense rental areas . Each one of those de- fense rental ...
... period the adjustments had not been made , the O. P. A. was to go in with rent control . Now , this meant , during the first 6 months of that period , the establishment of 287 defense rental areas . Each one of those de- fense rental ...
Pagina 9
... period would heighten the chances that the prices were abnormal - prices , for example , resulting from sales , and so on - and that if the period were extended for this kind of regulation the month's period would give a fairer , more ...
... period would heighten the chances that the prices were abnormal - prices , for example , resulting from sales , and so on - and that if the period were extended for this kind of regulation the month's period would give a fairer , more ...
Pagina 10
... period . I'll never forget it . Coupon rationing went into effect 2 months later . This was purely an emergency measure here in that early period . Seventeen States covered and 9,800,000 motor vehicles . I should just like to emphasize ...
... period . I'll never forget it . Coupon rationing went into effect 2 months later . This was purely an emergency measure here in that early period . Seventeen States covered and 9,800,000 motor vehicles . I should just like to emphasize ...
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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.