Purchase and Sale of Farm Products: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Sixty-eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 1642, a Bill to Provide for the Purchase and Sale of Farm Products and S. 2012, a Bill Declaring an Emergency in Respect of Certain Agricultural Commodities, to Promote Equality Between Agricultural Commodities and Other Commodities, and for Other Purposes. January 7-11, 17-19, 22-23, and 26, 1942, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - Agriculture |
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