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Harry Truman: “Instead, the people of the Northwest gradually began to reap the benefits of the enormous blocks of low-cost power…”

On the recordSeptember 30, 1952
Instead, the people of the Northwest gradually began to reap the benefits of the enormous blocks of low-cost power produced at Bonneville and Grand Coulee.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Address in Montana at the Dedication of the Hungry Horse Dam

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