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Accordingly, I urge that we initiate as soon as possible a $600 million capital improvements program in the redevelopment areas and in the communities which have been designated for 12 months or more as areas of substantial unemployment.

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Letter to the Chairmen, House and Senate Public Works Committees, Proposing a Capital Improvements Program for Depressed...

03/25/1962

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