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Robert C. Byrd: “Cheap foreign residual entering the American ports in quantity results in depressed prices for residual oil domestically…”

On the recordMarch 16, 1953
Cheap foreign residual entering the American ports in quantity results in depressed prices for residual oil domestically produced and depressed prices for coal from eastern fields which must meet the competition of foreign residual or get out of the market altogether.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
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Mar 16, 1953

Editor's note · Context

Urging limits on imports of foreign residual fuel oil.

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