The Economic Report of the President: Hearings Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1957 |
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... steel industry , for example , agreements should be based on the productivity prospects for the steel industry or for the economy as a whole ? Dr. SAULNIER . Well , that is a hard question . Representative MILLS . If it is agreeable to ...
... steel industry , for example , agreements should be based on the productivity prospects for the steel industry or for the economy as a whole ? Dr. SAULNIER . Well , that is a hard question . Representative MILLS . If it is agreeable to ...
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... steel industry , agreements should be based on the productivity prospects for the steel industry , or for the economy as a whole ? C. Assuming that the wage agreements are to be based on the productivity prospects of the particular industry ...
... steel industry , agreements should be based on the productivity prospects for the steel industry , or for the economy as a whole ? C. Assuming that the wage agreements are to be based on the productivity prospects of the particular industry ...
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... steel industry should involve agreements based on productivity prospects for that particular industry or the economy as a whole . What are we talking about in the report there ? Dr. SAULNIER . Let me see if I can answer the question ...
... steel industry should involve agreements based on productivity prospects for that particular industry or the economy as a whole . What are we talking about in the report there ? Dr. SAULNIER . Let me see if I can answer the question ...
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... steel industry , among others . Representative CURTIS . I have one other comment . It seems to me that the President's Economic Report and the comments of the panel emphasize that the shortage in credit is not in the consumer dollar as ...
... steel industry , among others . Representative CURTIS . I have one other comment . It seems to me that the President's Economic Report and the comments of the panel emphasize that the shortage in credit is not in the consumer dollar as ...
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... steel industry is a good example . The industry raised its prices even during the economic recessions of 1949 and 1953-54 , when oper- ating far below capacity . The industry sought to justify its large price increases in 1956 , which ...
... steel industry is a good example . The industry raised its prices even during the economic recessions of 1949 and 1953-54 , when oper- ating far below capacity . The industry sought to justify its large price increases in 1956 , which ...
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Page 2 - Representatives containing its findings and recommendations with respect to each of the main recommendations made by the President in the Economic Report, and from time to time to make such other reports and recommendations to the Senate and House of Representatives as it deems advisable.
Page 80 - Defense, and the Secretary of Defense shall be the head thereof. (b) There shall be within the Department of Defense (1) the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy...
Page 344 - Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
Page 40 - Of particular importance in a prosperous economy is the responsibility of leaders of business and labor to reach agreements on wages and other labor benefits that are consistent with productivity prospects and with the maintenance of a stable dollar.
Page 445 - ... (B) if from deposits in the United States — anorthosite (to the extent that alumina and aluminum compounds are extracted therefrom), asbestos, bauxite, beryl, celestite, chromite, corundum, fluorspar, graphite, ilmenite, kyanite, mica, olivine, quartz crystals (radio grade), rutile, block steatite talc, and zircon, and ores of the following metals : antimony, bismuth, cadmium, cobalt, columbium, lead, lithium, manganese, mercury, nickel, platinum and platinum group metals, tantalum, thorium,...
Page 663 - Federal Crop Insurance Corporation is a wholly owned Government corporation created February 16, 1938 (7 USC 1501), to carry out the Federal Crop Insurance Act. The purpose of this act is to promote the national welfare by improving the economic stability of agriculture through a sound system of crop insurance and providing the means for research and experience helpful in devising and establishing such insurance.
Page 142 - Bureau of the Census. Prepared by US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Division of Manpower and Employment Statistics, Feb.
Page 446 - ... (5) 5 percent— (A) Brick and tile clay, gravel, mollusk shells (including clam shells and oyster shells), peat, pumice, sand, scoria, shale, and stone, except stone described in paragraph (6); and (В) If from brine wells— bromine, calcium chloride, and magnesium chloride.
Page 574 - Federal regulation should be extended to all mergers of banking institutions. Combined with the requirement for advance notice, this extension of the law would give the Government an opportunity to prevent mergers that are likely to result in undue restraint of banking competition. Third, . . . the Clayton Act should be amended to make explicit the Federal Government's authority to take action in merger transactions in which either party is engaged in interstate commerce.
Page 84 - The CHAIRMAN. If there are no further questions, the committee will stand adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.