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On the recordJanuary 6, 1949
I remember having a hearing, when I was chairman of a certain committee in the Senate, and I recall the Aluminum Company of North America informed me that 300 million pounds was all that the country or the world would use, as far as their company was concerned.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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