07/14/1946
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"No, not in detail."
"The decision is that we will eventually go ahead with the merchant marine program."
"The budget does reflect it properly, and if the Congress doesn't pass the appropriation, it will be just as if it didn't exist."
"The policies on which this budget is based, therefore, mean that under present conditions of high costs, it is even more realistic and hard boiled than the 1948 budget was."