Word: fees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion, legislation which does not contemplate the ultimate handling of all principal farm products, through cooperatives, with some device such as an equalization fee*; to distribute the costs incident to handling the surplus among all the producers of the particular commodity, will not afford genuine and permanent relief...
...Equalization fee" is the name applied to the tax above referred...
...farmers' co-operatives were unable to cope with the surplus problem, the board itself could buy grain or other produce to maintain domestic prices at the world price plus the tariff. Also, after two years, the coffers of the board would be annually replenished by an "equalization fee," a kind of tax collected by the government on all produce sold, the revenue from which would pay for any losses taken in disposing of the surpluses...
...Administration is strongly opposed to the "equalization fee" idea, describing it as an excise tax on necessities. It likewise does not like the idea of having a government board deal in farm produce. But on the face of first expressions of opinion it seems the dirt farmers prefer the Haugen bill, because it would not put the burden of dealing with the entire surplus on a few cooperatives, which might not be equal to the occasion...
...here toward the selection of a committee which will handle the University delegation. The Harvard quota this year is 75, and it is expected that with the site of the conference so near Cambridge the full number of emissaries will be found at an early date. The regular registration fee of seven dollars will not be required from foreign students. In order to secure a large foreign representation financial aid will also be extended to certain of these students who could not otherwise attend the conference. All men who are interested in spending all or part of the conference week...