04/27/1949
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"Well, rationing at the present time would not meet the emergency, because there isn't time to implement it, as I have told you time and again."
"I recommend, therefore, that its statutory authority be extended beyond the present expiration date of January 22, 1947."
"I did not discuss it."
"Your guess is as good as mine."