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Show WALTER SHE AD Farm Blocs Wait at Trough HPHE Marshall plan for stop-gap aid to Europe, which seems certain of passage in some form In the special session, calls for peak production of almost all agricultural crops. So the farm commodity blocs are mobilizing; mobiliz-ing; as a matter of fact, they began work before the special session convened, con-vened, to get a finger in the pie. There's a lot of money to be spent on this interim aid to Europe and, despite the fact that the administration is definitely opposed to earmarking any funds for special items in the legislation itself, the pressure groups are at the trough waiting. For instance, the cotton boys want promises of enough money for possibly a million and a half bales of this year's crop and, if tobacco can I be classified as essential aid, the tobacco boys want to be In on the take. ' Big pressure is on to include canned goods in the aid program. Then : there are the big wheat growers, like the Montana man who is holding 600,000 bushels for a higher price. Soybean, peanut and cotton seed oils and many other specific blocs are trying to get airtight promises for big money for their groups. |