05/08/1944
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"It is therefore, good for our safety to develop further and to use the natural resources and the man power of this region."
"Our vital task of conservation is to preserve the freedom that our forefathers won in this land."
"This Chickamauga Dam ... is helping to give to all of us human control of the watershed of the Tennessee River."
"We must prepare in a thousand ways."