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I therefore recommend that the Senate and the House of Representatives, by Joint Resolution, make a declaration of policy to the effect that it is the firm intention of the Government to maintain a synthetic rubber industry in the United States, adequate to the minimum needs of national security.

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Special Message to the Congress on Rubber

02/06/1947

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