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FDR: The national income has risen from thirty-eight or thirty-nine billions to—what was it this year?- sixty-five, and…

On the recordOctober 28, 1937
The national income has risen from thirty-eight or thirty-nine billions to—what was it this year?- sixty-five, and probably this coming year will go to seventy.
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