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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF42-022
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Commerce draft bill to provide modernized general cargo and dry bulk merchant ships for those segments of the United States merchant marine which are not paid operating-differential subsidy, and for national defense. The legislation was known as the Merchant Ship Modernization Act of 1962.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-049
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Commerce report on H.R. 5201, to amend section 203(b)(6) of Interstate Commerce Act so as to limit the application of the exemptions provided therein for agricultural vehicles.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-028
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Commerce draft bill to amend certain provisions of the Area Redevelopment Act.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-014
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on two bills drafted by the Department of Commerce to carry out the transportation recommendations of the President in his message of April 5, 1962. The first bill would exempt certain carriers from minimum rate regulation in the transportation of bulk commodities, agricultural and fishery products, and passengers. The second bill would provide for strengthening and improving the national transportation system.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF38-003
This folder contains a preliminary report by the Department of Commerce titled "A Coordinated Attack on Poverty in the United States," containing the agency's proposals for the 1964 legislative program to combat poverty. This report was submitted to the Council of Economic Advisers in response to a request from Walter W. Heller.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF37-005
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning ocean freight shipping rates. Items include a paper by the Department of Commerce on ocean freight rates and the balance of payments.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF22-007
This folder contains Walter W. Heller's correspondence with the Department of Commerce. Types of material include letters, memoranda, reports, publications, press releases, and data charts. Correspondents include Luther H. Hodges (Secretary of Commerce), Clarence D. Martin, Jr. (Under Secretary for Transportation), George Jaszi (director of the Office of Business Economics), James G. Morton (special assistant to the Secretary), Richard H. Holton (Assistant Secretary of Commerce), and Edward Gudeman (Under Secretary of Commerce). The file also contains select copies of Hodges' Congressional testimony and press conferences, and a directory of industry and trade specialists in the Business and Defense Services Administration, within the Department of Commerce.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF22-006
This folder contains Walter W. Heller's correspondence with the Department of Commerce. Types of material include letters, memoranda, reports, publications, press releases, and data charts. Correspondents include Luther H. Hodges (Secretary of Commerce), Clarence D. Martin, Jr. (Under Secretary for Transportation), George Jaszi (director of the Office of Business Economics), James G. Morton (special assistant to the Secretary), and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (Under Secretary of Commerce). The file also contains the Department of Commerce proposed legislative program for the 89th Congress, 1st Session; a preliminary draft report on the airline subsidy reduction program; an issue of Current Population Reports on consumer income, published by the Bureau of the Census; a Report to Congress on Unauthorized Assistance to Seemingly Nondepressed Areas Under the Public Works Acceleration Act and the Area Redevelopment Act, by the U.S. Comptroller General; and information on a State Science and Technology Conference in Washington, D.C. (3-4 February 1964).
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF28-001
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the Business Advisory Council of the Department of Commerce. Types of items include news articles, memoranda, correspondence, and notes. Of note is a memorandum outlining the history of the Business Advisory Council and its relationship to the Council of Economic Advisers.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF31-007
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning corporate depreciation allowances in 1962. Types of items include press releases, charts, and memoranda.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF31-004
This folder contains memoranda concerning the Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Defense, which was chaired by the Department of Commerce.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF28-038
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the Special Committee on Non-Tariff Trade Barriers, which was chaired by the Department of Commerce. The majority of the file is a report by the Special Committee with tables listing major non-tariff barriers by country. It also includes a position paper on basic issues related to tariff negotiations.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF40-007
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a bill to promote economic growth by supporting state and regional centers of technology.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF43-030
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Commerce draft bill to provide government industrial modernization credit insurance, and thereby make credit facilities more readily available for the modernization of the nation's industrial economy, and stimulate increased productivity and growth in the domestic and foreign commerce of the United States.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF44-017
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on proposed reports by various agencies on enrolled bill H.R. 11, which would amend section 2(b) of the Clayton Act, as amended by the Robinson-Patman Act, to provide that a businessman may in good faith meet the equally low price of a competitor only if the effect of such action may not be substantially to lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in any line of service. There are proposed reports with the opinions of the Small Business Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Justice.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF44-010
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a draft bill to delete the limitations on the amounts which may be made available for occupational training and for retraining subsistence payments under the Area Redevelopment Act.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF44-007
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Commerce draft bill to amend section 131 of Title 13, United States Code, so as to provide for earlier taking of the economic censuses.