Causes of the Loss of Export Trade and the Means of Recovery: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on the Causes of the Loss of Export Trade and the Means of Recovery, January 30, 31, February 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7, 1933U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935 - 569 pages |
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Page 345 - If there are no further questions, we are much obliged to you, Mr.
Page 459 - If, perchance, some of our tariffs are no longer needed for revenue or to encourage and protect our industries at home, why should they not be employed to extend and promote our markets abroad?
Page 498 - UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, Washington, DC The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10 am in the committee room, 324, Senate Office Building, Senator Ellison D. Smith (chairman) presiding.
Page 459 - The natural line of development for a policy of reciprocity will be in connection with those of our productions which no longer require all of the support once needed to establish them upon a sound basis, and with those others where either because of natural or of economic causes we are beyond the reach of successful competition.
Page 189 - Section 12 (a) appropriates $100,000,000 "to be available to the Secretary of Agriculture for administrative expenses under this title and for rental and benefit payments...
Page 564 - That whenever the Secretary of the Treasury (hereinafter in this act called the "Secretary"), after such investigation as he deems necessary, finds that an industry in the United States is being or is likely to be injured...
Page 524 - ... retail expenditures for agricultural commodities, or products derived therefrom, which is returned to the farmer, above the percentage which was returned to the farmer in the prewar period, August 1909— July 1914.
Page 248 - If the adverse condition of the exchanges was due not merely to seasonal fluctuations but to circumstances tending to create a permanently adverse trade balance, it is obvious that the procedure above described would not have been sufficient. It would have resulted in the creation of a volume of short-dated indebtedness to foreign countries, which would have been in the end disastrous to our credit and the position of London as the financial centre of the world.
Page 230 - A fundamental change has taken place with reference to the position of America in the world's affairs. The prejudice and passions engendered by decades of controversy between two schools of political and economic thought, the one believers in protection of American industries, the other believers in tariff for revenue only, must be subordinated to the single consideration of the public interest in the light of utterly changed conditions.
Page 414 - The committee stands adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. (Whereupon, at 4 : 58 pm, the committee adjourned until 10 am, Tuesday, Feb.