Department of Agriculture Appropriations for 1960: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session Subcommittee on Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations Jamie L. Whitten, Mississippi, Chairman ; Fred Marshall, Minnesota ; H. Carl Andersen, Minnesota ; William H. Natcher, Kentucky ; Walt Horan, Washington ; Alfred E. Santagelo, New York ; Robert H. Michel, Illinois ; Ross P. Pope, Staff Assistant to the Subcommittee ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - 3098 pages |
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acreage allotment acres activities administrative agencies agricultural commodities Agricultural Marketing Service amended amount ANDERSEN annual appropriation assistance attaché authority average basis borrowers budget bushels cents Chairman committee Commodity Credit Corporation competitive conservation reserve consumer contracts corn costs cotton countries crop dairy December 31 Department of Agriculture distribution dollar eggs estimate expenses farm Farmers Home Administration feed grains financing fiscal year 1958 Foreign Agricultural Foreign Agricultural Service foreign currencies funds Government grade HORAN imports increase insured June 30 livestock loans marketing quota Marketing Service MARSHALL McLAIN ment milk million Mutual Security Act NATCHER obligations Office operating payments percent poultry pounds price support production projects Public Law 480 Puerto Rico purchase record requested retail rice SANTANGELO Secretary soil bank sorghums South Dakota soybeans stocks storage sugar supply tion tobacco Total trade TRELOGAN United wheat WHITTEN
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Page 2049 - That there shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Labor, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 1578 - States in these commodities or unduly disrupt world prices of agricultural commodities or normal patterns of commercial trade with friendly countries...
Page 1468 - (a) take reasonable precautions to safeguard usual marketings of the United States and. to assure that sales under this Act will not unduly disrupt world prices...
Page 1780 - ... 3. The availability of funds ; 4. The perishability of the commodity ; 5. The importance of the commodity to agriculture and the national economy ; 6.
Page 1865 - Interest on borrowings from the Treasury (and on capital stock) is paid at a rate based upon the average interest rate on all outstanding marketable obligations (of comparable maturity date) of the United States as of the preceding month. Interest is also paid on certificates of interest and lending agency obligations for the period the agencies have then- funds invested.
Page 1668 - States, for the purpose of financing the construction and operation of generating plants electric transmission and distribution lines or systems for the furnishing of electric energy to persons in rural areas who are not receiving central station service...
Page 1822 - ... calendar years immediately preceding the calendar year in which the national marketing quota is proclaimed with adjustments for abnormal weather. The State committee is authorized to reserve not to exceed 10 percent (15 percent in the case of...
Page 1823 - The allotment to the county shall be apportioned by the Secretary, through the local committees, among the farms within the county on the basis of tillable acres, crop-rotation practices, type of soil, and topography.
Page 1263 - Payments to States. — The Service administers the matched fund program for marketing activities carried out through cooperative arrangements by State departments of agriculture, bureaus of markets, and similar States agencies.
Page 1820 - States on the basis of the acreage seeded for the production of wheat during the ten calendar years immediately preceding the calendar year in which the national acreage allotment is determined (plus, in applicable years, the acreage diverted under previous agricultural adjustment and conservation programs...