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, 1935U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935 - 599 pages |
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Page 347 - If there are no further questions, we are much obliged to you, Mr.
Page 468 - 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 468 - 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 187 - 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 187 - Agriculture to finance, under such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, surplus reductions with respect to the dairy- and beef-cattle industries, and to carry out any of the purposes described in subsections (a) and (b) of this section (12) and to support and balance the markets for the dairy and beef cattle industries...
Page 519 - Bank shall be to aid in financing and to facilitate exports and imports and the exchange of commodities between the United States or any of its Territories or insular possessions and any foreign country or the agencies or nationals thereof.
Page 519 - ... drafts drawn upon it; to issue letters of credit; to purchase and sell coin, bullion, and exchange; to borrow and to lend money; to...
Page 121 - The truth of this statement is borne out by the fact that...
Page 536 - ... to increase the consumption of industrial and agricultural products by increasing purchasing power, to reduce and relieve unemployment, to improve standards of labor, and otherwise to rehabilitate industry and to conserve natural resources.
Page 359 - The CHAIRMAN. We will recess until 2 o'clock. (Whereupon, at 12 noon, a recess was taken...