Authorize Commodity Exchange Commission to Regulate Margin Requirements: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on S.831, a Bill to Amend the Commodity Exchange Act, as Amended, to Authorize the Commodity Exchange Commission to Regulate Customer Margin Requirements. June 14, 16, and July 12 and 13, 1939U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 - 102 páginas |
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