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How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Ep. 386 Rebroadcast)

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Problem Solving on Scientific and Technical and Engineering Side

Government sometimes paid farmers to plant fewer crops, but even this wasn't fully successful. One solution was to use surplus grain for animal feed. Anne eflyn: Problem solving on scientific and technical and engineering side tends to run on its own track and be seen as a positive outcome. But the fact that they also create these surpluses is sort of a different track of problems that farm policy then is trying to figure out solutions too....

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