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Commercial fertilizer use: 6,599,913 tons/year
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Agricultural exports: $765 million/year or 32% of total exports
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Most african americans where unemployed.
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ex slaves where interviewd. 36-38
over 2,300 slaves across the south of the u.s where interviewed by writers and journalist. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act provides acreage allotments and quotas, ever-normal granary, price-supporting loans, regional research laboratories, and Federal crop insurance
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Motor Carried Act brings trucking under ICC regulation
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Cooperative organized for artificial insemination of dairy cattle
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Food stamp plan begun
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Many former southern sharecroppers migrate to war-related jobs in cities
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One farmer supplies 10.7 people
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Acreages of crops, such as oats, required for horse and mule feed drop sharply as farms use more tractors
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Agricultural exports: $2.42 billion/year or 22% of total exports
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Many former southern sharecroppers migrate to war-related jobs in cities
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Congress of Racial Equality
a U.S civil rights organization that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights movement -
Shoe Rationing
Shoe rationing begins in the USA, limiting civilians to three pairs of leather shoes per year. -
Meat Rationing
Meat rationing begins in the USA and is set at 28oz per week. -
Swiss cheque
A U.S. Delegate hands the Swiss a cheque for $1m as reparations for the accidental bombing of Schaffhausen. -
Capture/M.I.A.
The USA issue's its casualty figures to the 21st December 1944 as 135,323 killed, 362,824 wounded, 75,844 missing and 64,148 captured.
