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Show in his recent mid-year budget re- view that it i3 impossible at this time to make other than a "tentative"1 "tenta-tive"1 estimate of what the government gov-ernment might have to spend to support farm prices this year. In general, agricultural department depart-ment officials believe the government's gov-ernment's costs in the price support sup-port program con be held to just over $100,000,000. This would be about even with the 1946 total and double 1947. 'Government Will Spend Million's To Keep Prices Up Agriculture department officials estimated today .the government will pay out more than $100,000,-000 $100,000,-000 this year to keep potato and egg prices up. How much more it will have to spend Cor price supports in 1948, they said, depends on how far cotton and grain prices are forced down by expected bumper crops. President Truman told Congress |