Potato Research and Promotion: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing and Consumer Relations of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-first Congress, First Session on H.R. 2777, H.R. 4220, H.R. 8391, and H.R. 8851. April 17 and 18, 1969 |
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