I repeat my recent recommendation that the authority to continue allocation controls on rubber be continued for one year under Title Ill of the Second War Powers Act, in order that the Congress may have an opportunity to consider this problem and to enact such permanent legislation as in its judgment is necessary and appropriate.
Special Message to the Congress on Rubber
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