Excerpt from Munitions Industry: Preliminary Report on Wartime Taxation and Price Control by the Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry, United States Senate This report is designed to cover in a preliminary 2 way the results of that part of the committee's investigations carried on in connection with its review of the findings of the War Policies Commission. The primary obligation imposed upon the War Policies Commission by Public Resolution N o. 98 of the Seventy-first Congress was to study and consider amending the Constitution of the United States to provide that private property may be taken by Congress for public use during war, and methods of equalizing the burdens and removing the profits of war, together with a study of policies to be pursued in the event of war. The two chief means of equalizing the burdens and removing the profits of war which have been employed in the past and which were considered by the War Policies Commission are (1) taxation, and (2) control of prices. These two methods have received serious considera tion by this committee which has heard testimony of Government officials and of private citizens familiar with these fields. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.