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Harry Truman: WHEREAS the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics has no further need for a certain tract of 263.70745 acres of such lands…

On the recordMay 12, 1947
WHEREAS the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics has no further need for a certain tract of 263.70745 acres of such lands, and it appears that the addition of such tract to the said Highway would be in the public interest:
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Executive Order 9851—Adding Certain Lands to the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway

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