Word: packers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Handle of the Wallace pitchfork is the Secretary's power to tax. To raise money to pay land rents and Domestic Allotment "benefits" he may levy on every bushel of wheat the miller turns to flour, on every pound of pork and beef the packer turns to ham and steak, on every quart of milk and cream that go into butter and cheese, on every pound of cotton the spinner makes into cloth. This processing tax, heart of the Roosevelt relief scheme, is a variable quantity which the Secretary of Agriculture adjusts to bring farm prices...
...club processors and distributors into line the Secretary could require each & every one to take out special operating licenses from the Department of Agriculture. A miller or packer or spinner who failed to do so was liable to be fined $1,000 for each day of his disobedience. The maximum fine on farmers who broke the Secretary's orders...
...window to get their scrip: onetime Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime Speaker of the House Frederick Huntington Gillett, Banker Henry G. Lapham of Boston, Edward Bausch (& Lomb), President William G, Stuber of Eastman Kodak Co., onetime President Charles Doran of Sperry Gyroscope Co., John Hays Hammond, Packer Edward A. Cudahy Jr., Princess Erik of Denmark, Banker Albert E. Nettleton, Louis B. Kuppenheimer (clothes), Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan (Chicago's Rush Medical College), Sir Montagu 6 Lady Allan of Montreal...
...door the reporter knocked as usual and heard the occupant of the room arise to open it. Then his eye fell on the name-plate. "Henry penny packer." Needless to say he was not given the privilege of an interview...
...Federal excise tax on each commodity, to be paid by miller, spinner, packer or processor, and passed on to consumer, would be the difference between the "minimum price" and the actual market price. Thus, if wheat was selling at 50? per bu., the miller's tax would be 25? to give the grower...