Box 41: 80th and 81st Congresses, General Files: Agriculture - American Christian Palestine Committee (1947-1951).
F 1: Agriculture Department (January - May 1950).
a. Correspondence: re: extension of turkey support program; domestic lemon industry; cotton acreage allotment; school lunch funds; potato crisis; wool base price; surplus commodities; peanut price support.
b. Correspondence and data: re: Manufacturing zone in the lumber industry.
c. Article: Samuel Liss: "The Concept and Determination of Prevailing Wages in Agriculture During World War II." 18 pages.
d. Statement: Charles F. Brannan: "The Present Potato Situation." (January 31, 1950).
e. Copy of clippings.
F 2: Agriculture Department (June - November 1950).
a. Correspondence: re: school lunch program; importation of wild birds and animals; Appropriations Bill; S. 1971; potato crisis; irrigation system.
b. Report: "Agriculture in California." (June 1950). 9 pages. Office of Information.
c. Title 9 of Federal Register: "Animals and Animal Products."
F 3a: Agriculture Department: Yearbooks (January - May 1950).
Correspondence: re: Agriculture Yearbook and other publications.
F 3b: Agriculture Department: Yearbooks (May - November 1950)
Correspondence: re: Agriculture Yearbooks and other publications.
F 4: Agricultural Workers.
a. Correspondence: re: migratory farm workers. Correspondents include: Harry S. Truman, President of the United States.
b. Congressional Record: Helen Gahagan Douglas: "Migratory Farm Workers." 2 copies.
c. Press Release: "Cotton Picker Strike Extended to South"; and "118,000 Mexican Nationals Imported for U.S. Farm Work Since July 30."
d. Article: Lester Velie: "The Americans Nobody Wants." (April 1, 1950).
e. Article: Lester Velie: "For Us and Our Children - Home Is A Dream." (April 8, 1950).
f. Memorandum: H. L. Mitchell: "California Farm Workers Win Strike."
g. Senate Joint Resolution: Senator Dorsey: "Relative to the distribution to unemployed seasonal agricultural workers of surplus food in storage in the State of California owned by the Federal Government to be made available to them through state and county agencies." (March 20, 1950).
h. Editorial Research Reports: R. K. McNickle: "Migrant Farm Labor." Vol. 1, No. 15. (April 19, 1950).
i. Copy of clipping.
j. Release: O. M. Shelton: "Late Registration Rush Frets Warren Aides." (May 26, 1950).
F 5: Aircraft.
a. Correspondence: re: plane crash; strike.
b. Clipping: re: plane crash.
F 6a: Air Force, Department of: Air Force Academy.
a. Correspondence: re: Site for Air Force Academy.
b. Booklet: "A Prospectus of Santa Maria, California." (1950).
c. Report: "Proposed Site for the United States Air Academy." (March 1950). 42 pages.
F 6b: Air Force, Department of: Miscellaneous.
Correspondence: re: Flying schools; Career Compensation Act of 1949; proposed reduction of the Volunteer Air Reserve; solicitation of Life insurance.
F 6c: Air Force, Department of: Constituents Cases.
Correspondence: re: constituent's cases - promotions; benefits; discharges, etc.
F 7: Alaska Statehood.
Article: Thor M. Smith: "Northland is `Archilles Heel'."
F 8: Aldine Printing Statehood.
Correspondence: re: Application to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for $70,000.00
F 9a: American Christian Palestine Committee.
a. Correspondence, bulletins; clippings: re: America in Middle east, Arab War Effort; Children's Memorial Forest in Palestine.
b. Article: "The French Lick Statement."
c. Article: "Shall We Submit To Blackmail Diplomacy?" (October 13, 1974).
d. Bulletin: ACPC: "UNSCOP Majority Report" (October 1947).
e. Press Release: "Alfange Calls Upon Truman and Marshall to Lead in Fight for Adoption of UNSCOP Majority Report by UN." (September 30, 1947).
f. Press Release: "Twenty-five Christian Religious Leaders Urge Marshall to Give Full U.S. Support to UNSOP Majority Report."
g. Press Release: "Dean Alfange Calls on Truman and Marshall `Unequivocal' Statement of Palestine Policy."
h. Questions and Answers on the Children's Memorial Forest in Palestine.
i. Bulletin: "American in Middle East." (March 1947).
j. Bulletin: "Our Works Must Multiply." (January 1947).
F 9b: American Christian Palestine Committee: Correspondence and Data (1949-1950).
a. Correspondence: re: Shrines; homeless refugees; Tour of Israel.
b. Memorandum: Eliahu Ben-Horin: "The Problem of the Palestine Arab Refugees."
c. Various Press Releases.
d. Brochure: "Visit Israel."
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