Agricultural Appropriations for 1956: Hearings, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5239, Making Appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and the Farm Credit Administration for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1956, and for Other PurposesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1955 - 770 pages |
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