01/16/1980
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"The Federal Reserve actions will help to assure greater availability of funds for lending to small businesses, farmers, automobile dealers and buyers, and many other borrowers."
"It's let me and the Secretary of Interior and Agriculture... all see at first hand what the devastation is, which I could never have dreamed before I came here."
"This is a natural disaster of unprecedented dimensions."
"My guess is that over a period of time the Mount St. Helens explosion will be one of intense interest to geologists and volcanologists and others from all over the world."