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Show McCarran Asks Dollar Price on U. S. Product WASHINGTON. Jan. 14 (UP) Senator Pat McCarran D., Nev.) today Introduced aa amendment to the silver purchase act of 1234 to limit purchases by the treasury to domestically mined silver at a minimum min-imum price of ft a fine ounce. The preaent price for newly mined domestic silver is 44.44 cents as ounce, as compared to 43 cents an ounce which the government pays for foreign silver delivered at New York. The' current domeatlc price waa set by presidential proclama- tlon last December 31, and will continue In effect until midnight June 30 this year. |