The Marketing and Transportation SituationAgricultural Marketing Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1959 - Produce trade |
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AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE annual Apr.-June Bakery and cereal beans byproducts Cents Cents Cents cereal products cities consumers Corn cotton cream Dairy products declined decrease Dollars Dollars Dollars Dollars Dollars Percent evaporated Milk expenditures farm food products farm products farm value farm-retail spread farmer's share Fats and oils fluid milk food stores fresh fruits frozen fruits and vegetables frying chickens Grapefruit hogs hourly earnings income increased industry Jan.-Mar July-Sept kindred products labor costs Live-wholesale manufacturing Margarine market basket marketing bill marketing charges marketing firms marketing margin million Mktg Oct.-Dec Orange juice ounces output Percent Percent Percent percentage plants pork Poultry and eggs Pound price spreads Product groups include profits quantities railroads rates retail cost retail food retail price share of retail shipments Soybeans Spreads for Food sugar taxes Tomatoes transportation truck turkeys U.S. Dept unit Wholesale prices wholesale-retail workers
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Page 10 - In a proceeding involving competition between carriers of different modes of transportation subject to this Act, the Commission, in determining whether a rate is lower than a reasonable minimum rate, shall consider the facts and circumstances attending the movement of the traffic by the carrier or carriers to which the rate is applicable.
Page 36 - NOTICE If you no longer need this publication, check here ' ^return this sheet, and your name will be dropped from the mailing list. If your address should be changed, write the new address on this sheet and return the whole sheet to: Division of Administrative Services (ML) Office of Management Services US Depattmeit.
Page 27 - Commission shall give weight to the following considerations, among others: (1) The effect of the proposed transaction upon adequate transportation service to the public; (2) the effect upon the public interest of the inclusion, or failure to include, other railroads in the territory involved in the proposed transaction; (3) the total fixed charges resulting from the proposed transaction; and (4) the interest of the carrier employees affected.
Page 25 - In addition to the county or counties containing such a city or cities, contiguous counties are included in an SMSA if, according to certain criteria, they are essentially metropolitan in character and are socially and economically integrated with the central city.
Page 28 - Commission must estimate the scope and appraise the effects of the curtailment of competition which will result from the proposed consolidation and consider them along with the advantages of improved service, safer operation, lower costs, etc., to determine whether the consolidation will assist in effectuating the over-all transportation policy.
Page 26 - The Commission shall as soon as practicable prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties of the continental United States into
Page 22 - Foi1 the period 1954 to 1965 value added by manufacture represents adjusted value added and for earlier years, unadjusted value added. Unadjusted value added is obtained by subtracting the cost of materials, supplies and containers, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work from the value of shipments for products manufactured plus receipts for services rendered.
Page 25 - Except in New England, a standard metropolitan area is a county or group of contiguous counties which contains at least one city of 50,000 inhabitants or more.
Page 31 - This local competition is greatest in the area east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River.