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Harry Truman: I think that if you will read that section 8, that was a recommendation for a study of the situation, and if it was…

On the recordJanuary 6, 1949
I think that if you will read that section 8, that was a recommendation for a study of the situation, and if it was found that there was a shortage not only of steel but in other lines, the Government should prepare to make loans for the purpose of overcoming that shortage.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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