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Harry Truman: This principle of wise selectivity is particularly applicable to procurement and construction activities, but it is also…

On the recordJuly 13, 1949
This principle of wise selectivity is particularly applicable to procurement and construction activities, but it is also relevant to other grant of loan programs designed to stimulate private enterprise or to effect public improvements.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Memorandum to Agency Heads on the Channeling of Federal Procurement, etc., Programs to Areas of Economic Distress.

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