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Eisenhower: “The Government would then be on exactly the same basis under that section as all other shippers, and existing inequities…”

On the recordSeptember 1, 1954
The Government would then be on exactly the same basis under that section as all other shippers, and existing inequities in the present rate-making relationships between the Government and the common carriers would be removed.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Memorandum of Disapproval of Bill To Establish the Finality of Contracts Between the Government and Common Carriers.

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