. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 20 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 19, No. 12 the cents paid in August, but cents above the cents paid during Septem- ber a year earlier. Canned Fishery Products: Salmon and sardines were the principal canned fish- ery products purchased for the use of the Armed Forces during September as com- pared with the same period in 1956, purchases for the first nine months of 1957 of cajined tuna were down percent, of canned salmon were up percent, and of canned sardines down percent. Total purchases of these three cann
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 20 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 19, No. 12 the cents paid in August, but cents above the cents paid during Septem- ber a year earlier. Canned Fishery Products: Salmon and sardines were the principal canned fish- ery products purchased for the use of the Armed Forces during September as com- pared with the same period in 1956, purchases for the first nine months of 1957 of cajined tuna were down percent, of canned salmon were up percent, and of canned sardines down percent. Total purchases of these three canned fishitems January-September 1957 were down by percent from the like period of 1956. NOTE: THE ARMED FORCES INSTALLATIONS GENERALLY MAKE SOME LOCAL PURCHASES NOT INCLUDED IN THE DATA GIVEN. ACTUAL TOTAL PURCHASES ARE HIGHER THAN INDICATED, BUT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO OBTAIN LOCAL PURCHASES. :^ 3|c :4c ^ic 9|c OVERTIME INSPECTION BARRED ON CANNED FOODS PROCUREMENTS: Overtime for inspection of canned foods procured by the Military Subsistence Sup- ply Agency will no longer be permitted. Canned food purchases will be inspected only five days a week, Monday through Friday, in any 8-hour cycle from 6 to 6 The action is aimed at a reduction in Federal spending. It stems from a policy directive by the Secretary of Defense which constitutes a genersil prohibition on over- time in defense contracting. The policy is being implemented now by the veltIous Defense Department buying agencies. The Military Subsistence Supply Agency in Chicago has been instructed by the Defense Department that inspection of canned foods is to be performed without pay- ment of overtime, and this information has been given to the canning industry by the various Market Centers, with October 10 as the effective date of this new policy. It is understood that the only exception so far allowed with respect to canned food pro- curement is in contracts wherein the overtime inspection will not exceed 2 per
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