Senate panel weighs rebuke of price control agency
Chairman Thomas signals hearings may lead to formal recommendations to rebuke the price control agency. Packers claim margins between livestock and wholesale meat prices push profits down and foster black markets. Producers may testify as curtailment in livestock production is blamed on pricing. A separate bill would permanently stifle congressional investigations and news, supported by the joint chiefs as essential to national defense, with Senator Ferguson warning it could silence Pearl Harbor facts.
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OPA
Thomas
Senate Committee
Senate
Sen. Ferguson
Michigan
Senate Military Affairs Committee
War and Navy Departments
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Ferguson
Pearl Harbor
Capital Readings By Congressman Henry Dworshak
The article reports Senate Agriculture Committee hearings on the Office of Price Administration amid rising black market activity in meat and food products. OPA officials defend enforcement while senators call for tougher measures and even FBI involvement to curb price manipulation and its impact on postwar inflation.
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Office of Price Administration
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate
OPA
Thomas I. Emerson
Wheeler
Democrat
Montana
FBI
Reed Longs welcome first child a baby boy born April 14
Mapleton Mr and Mrs Reed Long announce the birth of their baby boy on April 14. Mother and child are reported doing nicely. the couple’s first child. Mrs Long was formerly Miss Carma Warner. A three act play June Mad was performed Friday evening with cast including Mada Burbank and Coradean Porter among others directed by Mrs Dorothy Burbank.
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Reed Long
Mada Burbank
Penny
Alvaro Burbank
Chuck
Fred Porter
Dr. Wood
Delbert Sharp
Winder
Elmer Sharp
Elvord Monson
Preston
Fred E. Porter
Monson
Odetta Porter
Nation's Cattlemen Have Real Job
Cattle producers are the key to alleviating tight meat supplies as beef animals on farms and ranches rise toward slaughter. Producers have already marketed a record number of cattle calves sheep and lambs in the first quarter to ease the gap caused by reduced hog slaughter and strong military civilian demand.
Inventory Pads Form Availability For Stock Survey
Inquire at Citizen for ready to use inventory pads forms designed for annual stock and merchandise surveys. These neat tabular sheets are prepared and waiting for immediate use.
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Henry Dworshak
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Robert Armbruster
VIE Ny
Welg Po
Puge
Kslat
Utah. Power & Light CO
Mapleton
Boix
Cutter Black Legol
Johnson
Aisaege
War Food Administration
Franklin County Beet Growers Ass
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