Excerpt from Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of Finances: For the Fiscal Year Ended June, 1974 While the freeze, and Phase IV of the wage-price control program which followed, achieved some temporary dampening of cost-price pressures, no lasting benefit was apparent. Congress allowed the enabling legislation to lapse, and wage-price controls were phased out by April 30, 1974. 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.