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1/39 阅读理解技巧训练 2.1细节题 In the 1920s deman for American farm products fell, as European countries began to recoverfromWorl WarIan institute austerity （紧缩）programstoreducetheirimports.The result was a sharpdropin farmprices. Thisperio wasmore disastrous for farmersthan earlier timesha been,because farmerswerenolongerself-sufficient.Theywerepayingformachinery, seed,an fertilizer,an theywere alsobuying consumer goods.Theprices ofthe itemsfarmers boughtremaine constant,whilepricestheyreceive fortheirproductsfell.Thesedevelopments were made worse by the Great Depression, which began in 1929an extende throughout the 1930s. In 1929, under President Herbert Hoover, the Federal Farm Boar was organized. It establishe the principle of direct interference with supply an demand, an it represente the firstnationalcommitmenttoprovidegreatereconomicstabilityforfarmers. President Hoovers successor attache even more importance to this problem. One of the firstmeasurespropose byPresidentFranklinD.Rooseveltwhenhetookofficein 1933wasthe Agricultural Adjustment Act, which was subsequently passe by Congress. This law gave the Secretary of Agriculture the power to reduce production through voluntary agreements with farmerswhowerepai totake their lan out ofuse.Adeliberate scarcity offarmproducts was planne inanefforttoraiseprices.Thislawwasdeclare unconstitutionalbytheSupremeCourt on the grounds that general taxes were being collecte to pay one special group of people. However, new laws were passe immediately that achieve the sameresult of resting soil an providing flood-control measures, but which were base on the principle of soil conservation. The Roosevelt Administration believe that rebuilding the nations soil was in the national interest an was not simply a plan to help farmers at the expense of other citizens. Later the governmentguarantee loanstofarmerssothattheycoul buyfa