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Herbert Hoover: What you want and what I want is to restore normal employment.

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Letter to the President of the American Society of Civil Engineers on the Economic Recovery Program.

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Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 11, 36; U.S. Code, title 16, sec. 473), and on the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is hereby ordered that lands within the Toiyabe National Forest…

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