Recommendation for Additional Taxes
04/30/1941
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I call upon the millions of victory gardeners who have done so much to swell the Nation's food supply in these war years...
We combat this evil enemy of disease at home just as unremittingly as we fight our evil enemies abroad.
I hereby authorize the Secretary of War to take possession of the plants and facilities of the American Enka Corporation...
The Nazi war machine has stripped them of raw materials and machine tools and trucks and locomotives.