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Item Description

Title

Dairy: Abernethy "Self-Help" bill (Library), 1958

Creator

Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.

Contributor

McWilliams, R.C.;

Published: November 14, 2006,  University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections

Description

Topics include H.R. 10043 by Representative Thomas Abernethy (MS), which is the same as a bill in the Senate by Senators Hubert Humphrey (MN) and Alexander Wiley (WI); bill would establish a "Dairy Stabilization Board" which would be empowered to fix prices, control production, establish the level of price supports for manufacturing milk, and conceivably take over all the processing functions; response of Vermont farm organizations to the bill; Aiken's estimation of the chance of the bill in Congress; current balance between consumption and production of milk; fertilizer payments; Vermont hearings on the "Self-Help" bill.

Source Document

Aiken Papers, Crate 8, Carton 1A, Folder14

Date of Source Document

1958

Digital Format: image/tiff : Text/Grayscale: 8 bits; 300 ppi, Microtek ScanMaker 9800XL.

Subjects/People

• Abernethy, Thomas Perkins, 1890-
• Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
• Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978
• McWilliams, R.C.;
• Milk trade -- United States
• United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Dairy Products
• United States. Office of Economic Stabilization -- Appropriations and expenditures
• Wiley, Alexander, 1884-1967

Subjects/Topics

• Agricultural price supports -- United States
• Dairy laws -- United States -- States
• Dairy processing
• Milk -- Prices -- United States
• Milk consumption
• Price regulation -- United States
• Products liability -- Dairy products

Time period: 1958

Format: text

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