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FDR: “Incidentally, another reason why, in all human probability, it won't get beyond the ten to eighteen percent of…”

On the recordNovember 22, 1937
Incidentally, another reason why, in all human probability, it won't get beyond the ten to eighteen percent of Government by either area or population or bulk power, is the fact that if any more were developed by Government it would barely maintain that ratio with the new production of private power.
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Democratic · New York

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