07/29/1940
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"It is hereby ordered as follows:1."
"For the duration of the war and six months thereafter all positions in or under the Inland Waterways Corporation."
"I hereby designate Emory B. Land as Chairman of the United States Maritime Commission."
"We are doing pioneering work, and other people who haven't got the same advantages we have here are in large measure copying what we are doing."