Progressive Century: The American Nation in Its Second Hundred YearsD. C. Heath, 1975 - 558 pages |
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... Agricultural Marketing Act that Congress passed in June 1929. The act created a Federal Farm Board -made up of the Secretary of Agriculture and eight other members ap- pointed by the president - that controlled a $ 500 million revolving ...
... Agricultural Marketing Act that Congress passed in June 1929. The act created a Federal Farm Board -made up of the Secretary of Agriculture and eight other members ap- pointed by the president - that controlled a $ 500 million revolving ...
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... Agricultural Adjustment Act and the National Industrial Recovery Act . A major difficulty in procuring farm legislation was the lack of cohesion among farmers and agricultural experts on what sort of legislation was required . During ...
... Agricultural Adjustment Act and the National Industrial Recovery Act . A major difficulty in procuring farm legislation was the lack of cohesion among farmers and agricultural experts on what sort of legislation was required . During ...
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... agricultural progress was associated with improving machinery and adapting to the climatic and soil conditions of various regions . Changes that took place in agriculture after 1945 were of a different order from those that preceded ...
... agricultural progress was associated with improving machinery and adapting to the climatic and soil conditions of various regions . Changes that took place in agriculture after 1945 were of a different order from those that preceded ...
Contents
Times and Tensions of a Developing Industrial Society | 3 |
MAPS | 21 |
American Society at the End of an Era | 34 |
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