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Correspondence concerning resolutions proposed by various constituent organizations related to proposed legislation and various other issues.

Correspondence concerning controls placed on rice by the Office of Price Administration (OPA).

Correspondence concerning an application by C. C. Royal, President of the Ocmulgee Lumber Company of Summerville, South Carolina, for the purchase of additional tractors.

Correspondence concerning rural electrification projects throughout South Carolina.

Correspondence concerning the Santee-Cooper hydro-electric power project (also known as the South Carolina Public Service Authority). Senator Maybank was heavily involved with the Santee-Cooper project serving as Chairman of the Santee-Cooper in 1939, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the South Carolina Public Service Authority, and continued interest and involvement while serving as a United States Senator.

Correspondence concerning Senator Maybank's service on the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Campaign Expenditures. Correspondents include Senator Allen J. Ellender, Chairman of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Senatorial Campaign Expenditures.

Correspondence from President E. H. Agnew of the South Carolina Farm Bureau including the price of cottonseed products, shortage of burlap bags for fertilizer, wages for farm labor, anti-strike legislation, exportation of lumber, and appointments to positions on the Farmers Home Administration.

Correspondence concerning acceptance of a special book mailing rate for certain publications like the annual report of the State Superintendent of Education of the State of South Carolina and the use of surplus property for educational institutions.

Correspondence concerning an arrangement for the purchase of the "Southern Home building" in Charleston, South Carolina.

A presentation, including prints and charts, given to members of the United States Senate Appropriations Committee at the Pentagon on April 30, 1946 by General Carl Spaatz concerning the future of the United States Air Force. Also included is a reprint of an article entitled "Strategic Air Power Fulfillment of a Concept."