California Conservation Corps
Commodity Credit Corporation. Operating unit of the US Department of Agriculture, under the management of an Undersecretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs, that manages export credits, surplus stocks and acquisition of commodities for PL 480 and Section 416(b) purposes. CRS--Catholic Relief Services, a PVO that is participating in WISHH efforts.
Civilian Conservation Corps. An organization initiated during the depression intended to provide work for young men. Members were put to work performing such duties as road building, park maintenance, and forest management. Many of the structures they built are still extant on Route 66 and elsewhere, and exhibit many of the characteristics typical of depression-era construction, including streamline and deco styling features.
Commodity Credit Corporation. A wholly government-owned corporation established in 1933 to assist U.S. agriculture. The major operations of the CCC are price-support programs in which it purchases excess supplies of commodities, and provides assistance in foreign exports of agricultural commodities.
Consumer Credit Counseling gives help with budgeting and credit. Phone 301-231-5833.
Commodity Credit Cooperation
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California Conservation Corp.
Civilian Conservation Corps. By March of 1933, 13,600,000 people were unemployed in the United States. Because of this emergency, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, only two days after his inauguration, called a meeting of high government officials to create a Civilian Conservation Corps. The plan was to put 500,000 unemployed youths to work in forests, parks and range lands.
Commodity Credit Corporation. A public corporation attached to the U.S. Department of Agriculture that provides financial and other services associated with public price-support activities for certain agricultural commodities, including loans, guarantees, purchases, sales, storage, transport and export programs. See also: Export Enhancement Program
Commodity Credit Corporation Responsible for agricultural commodity programs, emergency programs, and related domestic and international food assistance programs; http://www.fsa.usda.gov/dam/fmd/ccc
Commodity Credit Corporation. A branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, established in 1933, that supervises the government's farm loan and subsidy programs.
COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION. A government owned and operated corporation authorized to borrow funds from the U.S. Treasury to operate the U.S. Department of Agriculture's price and income support programs, to manage government owned stocks of agricultural commodities and administer their disposal through domestic and export programs. Most activities are carried out by ASCS personnel, although certain programs are administered and implemented through the Agricultural Marketing Service, the Foreign Agricultural Service, and the Food and Nutrition Service.
Commodity Credit Corporation. A government-owned corporation established in 1933 to support prices through purchases of excess crops, to control supply through acreage reduction programs, and to devise export programs.
The Commodity Credit Corporation provides financing for USDA's commodity programs and several conservation programs.
Consumer Credit Counseling. A debt reorganization plan that is similar to a chapter thirteen bankruptcy. CCC companies will negotiate lower monthly payments with creditors, the debtor will make monthly lump sum payments to the counseling company.
Calling Card Call. Calls placed and billed to a local or long distance credit card. The caller can dial the credit card digits or verbally transmit them to an operator-the latter being more expensive. A billing database validates the credit card digits and the PIN (personal identification number), making sure they correspond.
The Commodity Credit Corporation is a wholly owned government corporation created in 1933 to stabilize, support, and protect farm income and prices (federally chartered by the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act of 1948 (P.L. 80-806, June 29, 1948)). The CCC, which has no staff, is essentially a financing institution for USDA's farm price and income support commodity programs, and agricultural export subsidies.
Commodity Credit Corporation. The Commodity Credit Corporation is a wholly owned federal corporation within the U.S. Department of Agriculture formed to finance price supports for agricultural commodities. The objectives of the CCC are to stabilize and support income and commodity prices. In addition, the CCC facilitates the distribution and the balanced supply of agricultural commodities.
Civil Constructional Corps
See Commodity Credit Corporation.
During the Hundred Days, Congress created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to provide government jobs in reforestation, flood control, and other conservation projects to young men between eighteen and twenty-five. This popular New Deal program eventually employed over 300,000 people.
commodity credit corporation, an agency within the u.s. department of agriculture.