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Harry Truman: We can have an adequate voice in setting the tolls on all these cargoes only if we join in constructing the seaway.

On the recordJanuary 27, 1952
We can have an adequate voice in setting the tolls on all these cargoes only if we join in constructing the seaway.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Special Message to the Congress Urging Action on the St. Lawrence Seaway.

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