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Correspondence concerning appropriations affecting Home Owners' Loan Corporation mortgages.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 3598) to prohibit the War and Navy Departments from engaging in wholesale insignia and military supplies in competition with civilian owned army supply stores.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for labor including a physician shortage.

Correspondence and reports from the Maritime Commission.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for the Independent Offices Bill and its effects on funding for the National Resources Planning Board.

Correspondence debating the place of a work program like the National Youth Administration (NYA) during wartime and its use on defense projects.

Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 983) to provide for the training of nurses for the armed forces, governmental and civilian hospitals, health agencies, and war industries, through grants to institutions providing such training.

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.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for additional funds given to the wives and infants of enlisted men.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for the Tariff Commission.