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Tobacco Acreage Increase Sparks Congressmen's Ire
A 10 percent rise in the 1974 tobacco acreage allotment and a flue-born marketing quota anger lawmakers. Sen. Talmadge and Rep. Stubblefield condemned the action as harming farmers, while NC and KY tobacco leaders decried the move. House hearings set to probe Why the decision defied adjournment understandings.
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Associated Press
Washington
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
House Agriculture Subcommittee
Agriculture Department
Congress
Herman E. Talmadge
D-Ga
Senate Agriculture Committee
Butz
Talmadge
Dr Butz
Frank A. Stubblefield
House Agriculture
Wilmer D. Mizell
North Carolina