To Investigate the Causes of the Decline of Cotton Prices: Hearings, Seventy-fourth Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 103, 125, 172, and 182 |
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12-cent loan American cotton amount of cotton Anderson average bales of cotton bought buyer carrying charges cents a pound certificated cotton certificated stock CHAIRMAN CLAYTON clearing house committee correct cotton business cotton market cotton merchant CREEK CREEKMORE crop December decline deliver delivery month delivery points difference Ellison D fact farmer Federal Farm Board figures firm futures contracts futures exchanges futures market Galveston give Government grades Houston issued notices January July 31 liquidation Liverpool March 11 MCFADDEN Middling seven-eighths mill month notice day October operations Orleans percent period price of cotton producer profit purchases qualities question record season sell seller Senator NORRIS Senator POPE short position sold southern delivery speculative spot cotton spot market spot price statement straddle tender thing thousand bales tion transactions transfer warehouse WEIL York contract York Cotton Exchange York market
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Page 712 - By preventing inefficient and wasteful methods of distribution. 3. By encouraging the organization of producers into effective associations or corporations under their own control for greater unity of effort in marketing and by promoting the establishment and financing of a farm marketing system of producer-owned and producer-controlled cooperative associations and other agencies.
Page 4 - For the purposes of this resolution the committee, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, is authorized to hold such hearings, to sit and act at such...
Page 5 - Congress, to employ such clerical and other assistants, to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures, as it deems advisable.
Page 4 - The joint committee shall select a chairman and a vice chairman from among its members. (d) The joint committee, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, is authorized to hold such hearings, to sit and act at such places and times, to require, by subpena or otherwise, the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, to procure such printing and binding, and to make such expenditures as it deems advisable.
Page 889 - Now, there is an old saying that there are three kinds of lies — lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Page 862 - ... 2 o•clock pm) AFTER RECESS. (The committee reassembled at 2 o•clock pm, pursuant to the taking of recess.) The CHAIRMAN.
Page 5 - That when any duty is imposed upon a committee of the Senate involving expenses which are ordered to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate, upon vouchers to be approved by the chairman of the committee...
Page 252 - Hedging, for instance, as it is called, is a means by which collectors and exporters of grain or other products, and manufacturers who make contracts in advance for the sale of their goods, secure themselves against the fluctuations of the market by counter contracts for the purchase or sale, as the case may be, of an equal quantity of the product or of the material of manufacture.
Page 409 - MILLRICK. -Yes, sir. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will stand adjourned until Monday morning at 10 o'clock. (Thereupon, at...
Page 234 - AFTER RECESS (The hearing was resumed at 2: 30 pm, pursuant to recess.) The CHAIRMAN.