In Congress as it drove toward adjournment last week, the work most momentous for Business and the Nation was being done off the floor, behind the closed doors of conference rooms. Day after the 14 Wages-&-Hours conferees finally pushed back their chairs with a bill ready to be presented to both houses, another joint committee agreed on a $3,753,000,000 version of the Lend-Spend Bill, including two items ($212,000,000 for farm benefits. $1,000,000 for Rural Electrification administrative expenses) which the House would have to vote on separately this week. Meanwhile on the floor:
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