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That is why, since this war was started in 1939, you have increased the annual production of coal by almost two hundred million tons a year.
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gutenberg.orgFDR: “That is why, since this war was started in 1939, you have increased the annual production of coal by almost two hundred…”
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Roosevelt highlights the significant increase in coal production by miners since the start of the war in 1939.
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