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Harry Truman: The net effect of these adjustments has usually been in favor of the Government so that the adjusted obligation of the…

On the recordSeptember 27, 1950
The net effect of these adjustments has usually been in favor of the Government so that the adjusted obligation of the prior purchaser has been somewhere between the price which he originally paid for the vessel and the statutory sales price.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Memorandum of Disapproval of Bill To Amend the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946

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