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Correspondence concerning agriculture and forestry legislation including restrictions on margarine, appropriations for further development of cooperative agricultural extension work, price parity, the distribution of forest tree nursery stock, and tobacco and cotton prices.

Correspondence concerning the National Fertilizer Policy Bill.

Correspondence concerning aviation legislation including State and Federal control of airport funding and aviation safety. Senator Maybank stated that Federal Control of airports was sufficient and was opposed to handing over that power to the States.

Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 2082) to prohibit the sale of alcohol at military camps and reservations and to bring back prohibition for the duration of the war.

Two letters urging support for legislation to prohibit the vivisection of dogs in the District of Columbia and a letter protesting legislation to decree wholesale compulsory inoculation against rabies anywhere in the United States.

Correspondence concerning appropriations for agriculture and forestry programs including the Agriculture Extension Service, soil building program, lime and terracing, the Forest Farmers Association Cooperation Research Program, construction of twenty additional forestry experimental stations in the South, and state parks.

Correspondence concerning the eligibility of organized church bodies to apply for loans and grants as part of the government's post-war planning and engineering program.

A list of membership on subcommittees for the Senate Committee on Appropriations. Senator Maybank served on the Department of Agriculture, Independent Offices, Legislative Branch, Treasury and Post Office Departments, and War Department subcommittees. Also included is correspondence concerning the Meade Manpower Appropriations Bill.

Contains a copy of a statement made by Paul A. Porter, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (F.C.C.), before the Senate Appropriations Committee concerning a restitution of funds removed from the Commission's National Defense Appropriations.

Correspondence concerning education appropriations including vocational education training programs.