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Harry Truman: However, the clearly desirable objective of promoting an adequate merchant marine cannot be used to condone the…

On the recordJune 19, 1952
However, the clearly desirable objective of promoting an adequate merchant marine cannot be used to condone the allowance of excessive subsidies to individual ship operators.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Letter to the Attorney General on the Sale of the SS United States.

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