farm bloc
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Because the congressional farm bloc had written into the law a provision specifically exempting farm prices below the level of parity,* they would be handled in three ways.
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Everybody understood such figures, but few U.S. citizens knew much about the thing that the farm bloc was trying to manipulate.
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The farm bloc has fixed the crop-loan law so that farmers can unload their wheat on the Government at $1.14 a bushel v.
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At the heart of parity prices stands the perennial farm bloc target: the parity formula itself.
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If Jefferson were writing today he might say that the farm bloc contained the "deposit for substantial and genuine virtue."
From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)
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