Extending the Emergency Price Control and Stabilization Acts of 1942, as Amended: Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, on S.J. Res. 30, a Joint Resolution Extending the Effective Period of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as Amended, and the Stabilization Act of 1942, as Amended, February 27, March 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 21, and 22, 1945 |
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Page 505 - The powers granted in this section shall not be used or made to operate to compel changes in the business practices, cost practices or methods, or means or aids to distribution, established in any industry, except to prevent circumvention or evasion of any regulation, order, price schedule, or requirement under this Act.
Page 367 - A reasonable allowance for the exhaustion, wear and tear, and obsolescence of property used in the trade or business may be deducted from gross income.
Page 395 - ... due to peculiar circumstances, substantially higher or lower than the rents generally prevailing in the defense-rental area for comparable housing accommodations, and in those classes of cases where substantial hardship has resulted since the maximum rent date from a substantial and unavoidable increase in property taxes or operating costs.
Page 206 - The most notable events of the year affecting these policies were (1) the effort of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the American Federation of Labor...
Page 627 - UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY, Washington, DC The committee met at 10 : 30 am, pursuant to adjournment on Wednesday, March 21, 1945; in room 301 Senate Office Building, Senator Robert F.
Page 394 - Subpenas may be issued over the signature of the chairman of the committee or any member of the committee designated by him, and may be served by any person designated by such chairman or member. The chairman of the committee or any member thereof may administer oaths to witnesses.
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Page 363 - Association is the trade association of bituminous coal producers, with membership comprising about 80 percent of the commercial production of bituminous coal in the United States and with members in each of the major coal-producing States in the Nation.