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FDR: The reason why price ceilings have not already been imposed on all food products is that paragraph 3 of the Emergency…

On the recordSeptember 6, 1942
The reason why price ceilings have not already been imposed on all food products is that paragraph 3 of the Emergency Price Control Act prohibits such ceilings until farm prices as a whole have gone up beyond parity prices.
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Democratic · New York

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Message to Congress on Stabilizing the Economy

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