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Harry Truman: “The seaway will be self-liquidating through the collection of tolls.”

On the recordJanuary 27, 1952
The seaway will be self-liquidating through the collection of tolls.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Special Message to the Congress Urging Action on the St. Lawrence Seaway.

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