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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meat packers on every pound of hog. Thus special treasury funds would be created out of which the Secretary of Agriculture would pay off the adjustment certificates held by the producers. The wheat man, for example, if the market were 50? per bu., would get $300 for the regular sale of his 600 bu. and in addition. $168 as a Government subsidy, collected from the miller, on his 400 bu. for domestic consumption...
...There has been a considerable change of sentiment on the part of a majority of the people with reference to Prohibition. . . . Congress may permit the manufacture and sale of any alcoholic liquor which may reasonably be said to be non-intoxicating in fact. Your committee believes that 3.2% beer is, on eminent authority, non-intoxicating in fact. . . . The alcohol is so diluted that it would require considerable effort on the part of an average person to drink enough to become drunk...
...Bootleg beer is offered for sale at prices ranging from...
...there has been no subscription list formed, and all the copies have been sold either on public newsstands or in the House dining halls. The paper has been financed purely through the sale of copies with a little capital advanced by the editors to put the paper on its feet...
...representatives of agriculture, commerce and industry, he will dictate the rationing of foreign exchange (through the National Bank) to Danish importers. Thus if a Dane wants to buy a German Mercedes, the Import Tsar at his discretion can block the exchange transaction and may thus switch the sale to another country, by intimating for example that he would facilitate the purchase of a British Rolls-Royce...