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Harry Truman: I found that I just couldn't estimate them at all--and found I had to measure them by the acre.

On the recordOctober 11, 1948
I found that I just couldn't estimate them at all--and found I had to measure them by the acre.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks in Indiana and Illinois

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