Iowa counties fear loss of road funds under new plan
A Pocahontas County editorial laments Iowa highway funding shifts that would divert county dollars to state control. It argues northern counties would lose drainage and road improvements already funded locally and decries bonding 85 million dollars to pave primary roads with years of tax diversion.
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Coolidge
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Ford offers aid on Muscle Shoals nitrate plant
Henry Ford urged the government to keep Muscle Shoals as a nitrate plant for fertilizer and wartime needs, offering technical help and free research results. He argued a government run nitrate plant would benefit farmers, with Coolidge to decide before congress. Farmers and the South pressed for acceptance. Ford warned of private monopolies.
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