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Harry Truman: Great damage can be done by inability to obtain an occasional machine, or machine parts needed to complete a program or…

On the recordMay 21, 1947
Great damage can be done by inability to obtain an occasional machine, or machine parts needed to complete a program or project.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Special Message to the Congress Recommending Extension of the Second War Powers Act.

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