Farmers face new year with anxiety over prices
Washington dispatch notes farmers enter 1949 hopeful congress will lift their worries about income and price supports. Despite prosperity, 1948 saw an 8 percent drop in net receipts to about 15.45 billion as crop surpluses and weak foreign demand pressured prices. The agriculture department seeks to curb surpluses while farmers brace for policy shifts and potential higher supports. Belgium retains wooden shoes and lightweight concretes aid farm construction.
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Eggs Left Four Days In Warm Store Or Kitchen Lose Freshness
A note states that eggs exposed to four days in a warm store or kitchen lose as much freshness as eggs kept for several weeks in a covered refrigerator.
Doughton Resumes As Chairman Of Big Committee
Washington December 24. Names of at least nine Democrats entered Capitol Hill speculation today on possible choices for membership on the House Ways and Means Committee. Reps King California O'Brien Illinois Boggs Louisiana Albert Oklahoma Combs Fisher and Wilson Texas Hedrick West Virginia and Stanley Virginia mentioned for the six places to be filled. Doughton North Carolina becomes chairman along with Democrats Cooper Dingle Mills Gregory Camp Lynch Forand Eberhar ter on the current committee. Ways and Means Democratic members will be chosen January 1 and then 15 Democrats will nominate other Democrats for committee assignments. The committee handles tax tariff and social security legislation.
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