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On the recordApril 4, 1965
Today, when marketing charges account for nearly two-thirds of retail food prices, even a significant rise in farm prices has far less impact than do changes in nonfarm cost.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House Transmitting Legislative Proposals for Farm Commodity...

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