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Harry Truman: I am concerned, however, lest some shipowners who have already accepted price adjustments did so on the assumption that…

On the recordSeptember 27, 1950
I am concerned, however, lest some shipowners who have already accepted price adjustments did so on the assumption that the cost basis of their vessels for tax purposes would be the original price reduced by the net amount of the adjustments under section 9(b), operating only as a pricing formula.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Memorandum of Disapproval of Bill To Amend the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946

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