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FDR: “Failure to take advantage of this cheap power will not only tend to cramp industrial development but will force the…”

On the recordDecember 8, 1938
Failure to take advantage of this cheap power will not only tend to cramp industrial development but will force the substitution of more costly power.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Remarks to a Committee of the National Seaway Council

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