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FDR: “The cost of living goes up as fast as it is threatening to do in the immediate future.”

On the recordSeptember 6, 1942
The cost of living goes up as fast as it is threatening to do in the immediate future.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Message to Congress on Stabilizing the Economy

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