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Eisenhower: “This year the soil bank is retiring over 12 million acres and earning a half million farmers more than $260 million.”

On the recordSeptember 24, 1956
This year the soil bank is retiring over 12 million acres and earning a half million farmers more than $260 million.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Address at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois

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