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Harry Truman: I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby find and declare, on the basis of the said…

On the recordOctober 3, 1950
I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby find and declare, on the basis of the said supplemental investigation and report of the United States Tariff Commission, that changed circumstances require the modification of the said proclamation of September 5, 1939, as suspended in part and modified, so as to permit the entry for consumption, or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption, during the quota year ending at the close of January 31, 1951, of 1,500,000 pounds of harsh or rough cotton.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Proclamation 2905—Supplemental Quota on Imports of Long-Staple Cotton

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