Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem is rather delicate as well as difficult. What can the U. S. do about it? Retaliation in other ways is always a dangerous procedure, leading to cut-throat practices. Yet price regulation by restriction of production is purely a domestic policy in the countries concerned, with which we cannot directly interfere...
...pressure of the price-fixing group?both parties?began last week to tell on the Administration, with the prospect that its farm plans might be modified. Secretary Jardine announced that he was considering the problem of the surplus, that he had decided to call a number of "leaders" to Washington from time to time to confer on a "sound and effective" plan. So the Administration began to turn in its tracks...
...fact is that apparently the only way to curtail production is to make it unprofitable. Allow the farmer to make money on his produce by Government price fixing and he will naturally (unless some direct effort is made to prevent him) increase his production. This would only make the problem of the surplus worse and worse. This is the reason why Secretary Hoover has led the Administration to oppose price fixing as unsound...
...same period. On the other hand our sugar imports have increased 111% and imports of fruit, nuts and vegetables have increased 367% over what they were 25 years ago. We are fast tending to become a food importing country. There is every indication that to the next generation the problem of an export, surplus will be a ridiculous absurdity, and that their great outcry will be to keep down the high cost of agricultural products...
General Results: "The budget of the Reich has been balanced, and the mark stabilized. . . . From the point of view of reparation payment the plan has brought order into the management of the problem and assured determination by actual experience of the reparations that can be safely paid and transferred. Under it payments and deliveries are moving regularly to the creditor powers and in accordance with expectation...