The Administration's plans to help the wheat farmers proceeded on two fronts. Eugene Meyer, Jr., and former Congressman Frank W. Mondell, Director of the War Finance Corporation, set out for the Northwest to assist the farmers in forming cooperative marketing associations. Former Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois was elected chairman of a committee to aid them in this effort.
Meanwhile it is understood that in Washington Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has evolved another plan. It would call for the creation of a large grain export corporation by the Government to purchase...
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