Plan To Insure Crops Proposed By House Committee
The House agriculture committee endorsed a bill to create a permanent crop insurance system for wheat, cotton and flax with experimental programs for other crops. The report notes FCIC losses but argues broad insurance benefits justify a longer term and tighter regulations, including 75 percent coverage and cap on insured value.
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House Agriculture Committee
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Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
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Man vs Man and Blaze in a Yukon Cabin Showdown
Colin battles Nate Tennant in a frozen interior clash sparked by a blizzard. After a stormy trek west, the fight turns deadly as flames race through the cabin, leaving Colin to escape into the snow as the fire consumes the structure.
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Dove
Learmonth
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Nate Tennant
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Tom Gill
King Features Syndicate
Boll Weevil Starting In South Alabama
Alabama Extension Service urges farmers to fight cotton insects in 1944 as boll weevils appear in South Alabama and weather favors damage. Officials publish control methods for flea hoppers aphids boll weevils and leaf hoppers with calcium arsenate dusts and nicotine combinations. emphasis on samples and timing to protect yield and profits.
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Tallulah
Louisiana
Extension Service
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Alabama Farmers County
W. A. Ruffin
Joe N. Poole
Market Bulletin
Alabama
Bureau of Entomology and
They Have a Stake in Price Control Too
Community members at local stores stress the need to protect earnings and savings and keep the cost of living down while service members are away. They urge continued support and responsible spending to shield the buying power of the dollar and preserve jobs for when personnel return.
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America
Veto Looms Over Price Act Extension Fight
Senate Bankhead amendment to raise cotton textile ceilings faces Roosevelt veto risk as Congress nears vote on 18 month price control extension. Bankhead says parity pricing would lift cotton prices and aid farmers and consumers, while administration may offer a production allocation substitute as a counter.
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Wagner
D.-N.y
Senate Banking Committee
Roosevelt
Bankhead
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OPA
Senate
War Production Board
Boy and Jeep Meet Eighth Army in Italy Frontline Toll
An American warrant officer George Mitra attached to a U S artillery unit with the French Fifth Army met with the Eighth and Fifth armies near Valmontone on highway six. He described a wrecked road with a German blown hole and a scrambled reconnaissance amid a rush to secure the area.
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Valmontone
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Fifth Armies
George Mitra
U.S
Fifth Army
Pennsylvania
Mitra
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