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  2. Dissected plateau - Wikipedia

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    A dissected plateau is a plateau area that has been severely eroded such that the relief is sharp. Such an area may be referred to as mountainous, but dissected plateaus are distinguishable from orogenic mountain belts by the lack of folding , metamorphism , extensive faulting , or magmatic activity that accompanies orogeny .

  3. Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929 - Wikipedia

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    An Act to establish a federal farm board to promote the effective merchandising of agricultural commodities in interstate and foreign commerce, and to place agriculture on a basis of economic equality with other industries. Acronyms (colloquial) AMA: Nicknames: Farm Relief Bill: Enacted by: the 71st United States Congress: Effective: June 15 ...

  4. Federal Farm Board - Wikipedia

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    The Board in 1929. The Federal Farm Board was established by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929 from the Federal Farm Loan Board established by the Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916, with a revolving fund of half a billion dollars [1] to stabilize prices and to promote the sale of agricultural products. The board would help farmers stabilize ...

  5. Hachure map - Wikipedia

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    Hachure representation of relief was standardized by the Austrian topographer Johann Georg Lehmann in 1799. [1] Hachures may be combined with other ways of representing relief, such as shades, the result being a shaded hachure map; an example of such a map is the Dufour Map of Switzerland . [ 2 ]

  6. National School Lunch Act - Wikipedia

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    The class is video conferencing to a school in Ayrshire, Scotland, with some of their children visible on the screens. The Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (79 P.L. 396, 60 Stat. 230) is a 1946 United States federal law that created the National School Lunch Program ( NSLP ) to provide low-cost or free school lunch meals to ...

  7. Federal Executive Boards - Wikipedia

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    Housed within the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Centre for FEBs provides national, regional, and field leadership for the Federal Executive Boards (FEBs). It intends to give coordination across all boards distributed across the Eastern, Central, Southern, and Western regions of the United States.

  8. Second New Deal - Wikipedia

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    The Second New Deal is a term used by historians [1] to characterize the second stage, 1935–36, of the New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.The most famous laws included the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, the Banking Act, the Wagner National Labor Relations Act, the Public Utility Holding Company Act, the Social Security Act, and the Wealth Tax Act.

  9. Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) to the United States Constitution, a part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. [1] It expresses the principle of federalism, whereby the federal government and the individual states share power, by mutual agreement, with the federal government having the supremacy.