60 STAT. I 79TH CONG.. 2D SESS.-CH. 671-JULY 25, 1946 priorities for delivery thereof issued, under said Veterans' Emergency Housing Act of 1946. SEC. 7 . Section 2 (i) of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "(i) For the purposes of this Act and the Stabilization Act of 1942, as amended, fish and other sea food shall be deemed to be agri- cultural commodities, and commodities processed or manufactured in whole or substantial part from fish or other sea foods shall be deemed to be manufactured in whole or substantial part from agri- cultural commodities: Provided, That the provisions of section 3 of the Stabilization Act of 1942, as amended, shall not be applicable with respect to fish and other sea foods and commodities processed or manufactured in whole or substantial part therefrom, but the maximum price established for any fish or sea food commodity or for any commodity processed or manufactured in whole or sub- stantial part therefrom shall not be below the average price there- for in the year 1942." SEa. 8 . Section 2 (j) of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended, is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof a semicolon and the following: "or (5) as authorizing any regulation or order of the Administrator to fix a quantity or per- centage of any product which any seller may sell to any buyer'. SEC. 9 . Section 2 (k) of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended, is amended by inserting the words "or any operator of any service establishment" after the words "seller of goods at retail". SEC. 10. Section 2 of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended 2 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsections: "(o) No maximum price shall be applicable to any item served in any restaurant or other eating establishment if such item consists in whole or major part of a commodity to which no maximum price is applicable with respect to sales to restaurants and other eating estab- lishments, unless the maximum price of such item, when sold by such restaurant or other eating establishment, is determined, under the applicable maximum price regulation or order 2 by the addition of a customary margin to the acquisition cost of such item. "(p) After July 1, 1946, no maximum price regulation or order shall be issued or continued in effect requiring any seller to limit his sales by any weighted average price limitation based on his previous sales. "(q) In the case of any retail industry, the principal sales of which consisted during the calendar years 1939 to 1941, inclusive, of sales of a commodity or commodities the production or retail distribution of which has been reduced, for a period of three years beginning on or after March 2, 1942, by 75 per centum or more below such produc- tion or retail distribution for the calendar years 1939 to 1941, inclusive, as a result of the operation of any governmental regulation or restric- tion, the Administrator shall not, in establishing maximum prices under this section, reduce established peacetime retail trade discounts or mark-ups or dealer handling charges for any such commodity before the retail unit sales of such commodity for a period of six months shall have reached the average annual retail unit sales thereof for the calendar years 1939 to 1941, inclusive. "(r) In the case of any wholesale industry, the principal sales of i which consisted during the calendar years 1939 to 1941, inclusive, of sales of a commodity or commodities, the production or wholesale dis- tribution of which has been reduced for a period of three years begin- ning on or after March 2, 1942, by 75 per centum or more below such production or wholesale distribution for the calendar years 1939 to 80634°-47-PT. I ---43 673 56 Stat. 27. 50U. S.C., Supp.V, app. § 902 (i). Sea food. 56 Stat. 765. 50U.S. C ., Supp. V, app. §§ 961-964, 965- 971. Ante, p. 664; post,p. 677. 56 Stat. 766. 50 U.S. C ., Supp. V, app. § 963. Post, p. 677. Firing of quantity, etc., for sale to buyer. 57 Stat. 566. 50U.S.C . , Supp.V , app. §902 (). Highest price line limitation. 58 Stat. 636. 50U.S.C Supp.V, app. g 902 (k5. 56 Stat. 24. 50 U. S. C., Supp. V, app. §902. Ante, pp.57,214 ,670, 671; supra. Restaurants, maxi- mum prices. Issuance of desig- nated regulations, re- striction. Certain retail Indus- tries. Reduction of peace- time discounts, etc., restriction. Certain wholesale industries. Reduction of estab- lished discounts, etc., restriction.
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