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Box 10

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

"Appropriations-school lunch program", 1943

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

Correspondence concerning appropriations for a federally assisted meal program to provide low-cost or free lunches to school children. Though the program began long before, President Truman officially signed the National School Lunch Act in 1946. Senator Maybank was one of the primary sponsors of the program.

Dates: 1943