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:The plight of farmers continued.  In 1924, Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon and Representative Gilbert N. Haugen of Iowa presented a new bill, the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill.  The bill had two main parts.
:*A Farm Board would be created, and the government would buy any surplus crops
:*The Farm Board could choose to sell surplus crops abroad, in order to raise domestic agricultural prices [[HSref|(13)]]

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