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Correspondence concerning legislation to provide retirement for Reserve Officers.

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Correspondence concerning the ratification of the International Wheat Agreement to stabilize worldwide wheat prices. Senator Maybank supported its ratification.

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Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 1755 and H. R. 1242) to create a new world calendar.

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Correspondence concerning legislation to provide for a memorial to deceased servicemen of World War II whose bodies have not been recovered or identified or have been buried at sea. The memorial would provide for having their names inscribed on the walls of chapels and other memorial edifices erected by the Government.

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A letter from Senator Pat McCarran, Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, containing a copy of a report on trial examiners under the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946.

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning agriculture and forestry legislation including crop control and price parity, farm price support, the cotton parity formula, turkey prices, fertilizer, the Farm Bureau's amendment to the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) of 1938, livestock, school lunches, the revision of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act, the Forest Practices Act regulating the cutting of timber on privately owned lands, the potato allotment, and Federal Aid from fishing tackle...

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Correspondence concerning legislation (H.R. 2428) to prohibit interstate transportation of advertisements of alcoholic beverages by newspapers, radio, television, film, periodical, or other means.

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Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 179) to suspend for a year import duties on aluminum.

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Correspondence concerning an anti-trust case against the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) to declare a monopoly and breakup the company into several divisions.

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Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 1910) to amend the Sherman and Clayton Acts to provide a uniform period of limitations within which treble-damage actions may be instituted under the anti-trust laws.