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... sell 51 times as much grain as ever comes into Chicago . They sell three times as much as is produced in the whole world . Only twenty - eight one - hundredths of 1 per cent of this grain sold on futures is actually available for ...
... sell 51 times as much grain as ever comes into Chicago . They sell three times as much as is produced in the whole world . Only twenty - eight one - hundredths of 1 per cent of this grain sold on futures is actually available for ...
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... sell . And then instead of selling at the usual price they were able also to force the price up higher to the foreign purchaser . Representative FUNK . I do not believe we are getting together If I understood you , you referred to the ...
... sell . And then instead of selling at the usual price they were able also to force the price up higher to the foreign purchaser . Representative FUNK . I do not believe we are getting together If I understood you , you referred to the ...
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... sell 300,000,000 bushels of wheat over there you can sell 2,000 , - 000 bales of cotton or 100,000,000 bushels of barley ? Mr. BROOKHART . No ; but if that 33 cents that was put onto them had been cut down they would have had some more ...
... sell 300,000,000 bushels of wheat over there you can sell 2,000 , - 000 bales of cotton or 100,000,000 bushels of barley ? Mr. BROOKHART . No ; but if that 33 cents that was put onto them had been cut down they would have had some more ...
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... sell his product for a 50 - cent dollar - and it is actually less than that , because the prices of the farm products that he must sell to pay off those obligations are a whole lot less than half of what they were at the time those ...
... sell his product for a 50 - cent dollar - and it is actually less than that , because the prices of the farm products that he must sell to pay off those obligations are a whole lot less than half of what they were at the time those ...
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... sell , how are we going to help them pay for what we sell ? Unless we can find a system by which they can pay for it , it will be worse than useless to sell to them . Of course , we have created the finance corporation , and we have ...
... sell , how are we going to help them pay for what we sell ? Unless we can find a system by which they can pay for it , it will be worse than useless to sell to them . Of course , we have created the finance corporation , and we have ...
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Page 536 - It shall be the duty of the various district attorneys, under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, to prosecute for the recovery of forfeitures.
Page 536 - Such testimony shall be reduced to writing by the person taking the deposition, or under his direction, and shall then be subscribed by the deponent.
Page 536 - States the sum of $100 for each and every day of the continuance of such failure which forfeiture shall be payable into the Treasury of the United States, and shall be recoverable in a civil suit in the name of the United States...
Page 536 - That any person who shall neglect or refuse to attend and testify, or to answer any lawful inquiry, or to produce documentary evidence, if in his power to do so, in obedience to the subpoena or lawful requirement of the commission...
Page 536 - Upon the application of the Attorney General of the United States, at the request of the commission, the district courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction to issue writs of mandamus commanding any person or corporation to comply with the provisions of this Act or any order of the commission made in pursuance thereof.
Page 536 - Witnesses summoned before the commission shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the courts of the United States...
Page 536 - Any of the district courts of the United States within the jurisdiction of which such inquiry is carried on...
Page 536 - ... shall forfeit to the United States the sum of $100 for each and every day of the continuance of such failure, which forfeiture shall be payable into the Treasury of the United States, and...
Page 536 - Act, or who shall willfully neglect or fail to make, or cause to be made, full, true, and correct entries in such accounts, records or memoranda of all facts and transactions appertaining to the business of such corporation...
Page 536 - And in case of disobedience to a subpoena the commission may invoke the aid of any court of the United States in requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of documentary evidence.