Cold-storage Legislation: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, First Session, on Cold-storage Legislation, with Index and Appendix Containing Compilation of State Laws Relating to Cold Storage, and Report of the U.S. Food Administration for 1918. August 11-26, 1919. Parts 1-11, Part 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - 909 pages |
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12 months 60 days amount ANDERSON articles of food average barley barrel bill butter buyer carload cents per pound CHAIRMAN charge cold cold-storage warehouse committee consumer contract corn meal cost dealers delivery distribution dried eggs exceed farmer Federal food administrator fresh GILLEN glucose Government graham flour hogs HORNE HUTCHINSON interstate commerce JACOWAY jobber July leavening agents less less than carload licensee lots manufacture MARSHALL maximum margins MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan meal meat molasses MORRILL oats oleomargarine packages packers packing period person poultry profit purchase quantity reasonable refrigerating repeal to become retail rice rolled oats RULE M. S. sell seller Senator MCKELLAR shipment shipped sirups sold SPECIAL REGULATIONS storage stored sugar supply Swift & Co TINCHER tion United States Food URNER VOIGT WADDELL WELD wheat flour wheat-flour substitutes wholesale
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Page 455 - ... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both, at the discretion of the court...
Page 83 - The President may, in lieu of any such unjust, unreasonable, discriminatory, and unfair storage charge, commission, profit, or practice, find what is a just, reasonable, nondiscriminatory and fair storage charge, commission, profit, or practice...
Page 532 - An act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel...
Page 77 - Whenever the President shall find that any storage charge, commission, profit, or practice, of any licensee is unjust, or unreasonable, or discriminatory and unfair, or wasteful, and shall order such licensee, within a reasonable time fixed in the order, to discontinue the same, unless such order, which shall recite the facts found, is revoked or suspended, such licensee shall, within the time prescribed in the order, discontinue such unjust, unreasonable, discriminatory and...
Page 20 - ... (b) held, contracted for, or arranged for by any manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, or other dealer in a quantity in excess of the reasonable requirements of his business for use or sale by him for a reasonable time, or reasonably required to furnish necessaries produced in surplus quantities seasonally throughout the period of scant or no production; or (c) withheld, whether by possession or under any contract or arrangement, from the market by any person for the purpose of unreasonably increasing...
Page 533 - That the President is authorized from time to time to purchase, to store, to provide storage facilities for, and to sell for cash at reasonable prices, wheat, flour, meal, beans, and potatoes...
Page 467 - ... or by imprisonment for not more than 30 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 479 - No person, firm, or corporation shall sell, offer, or expose for sale, any of the herein named foods which shall have been held for a longer period of time than herein specified in a...
Page 258 - Time that cold storage foods may be kept. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, corporation or corporations, engaged in the business of cold storage warehousemen or refrigerating, or for any person...
Page 550 - ... any place artificially or mechanically cooled to or below a temperature of 45 degrees above zero Fahrenheit, in which food products are placed and held for thirty days or more...