A Call for a Rollback of High Interest Rates: Hearing, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session, on House Concurrent Resolutions 522 and 523 and Related Resolutions ... March 24, 1970U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 - 59 pages |
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| Title | A Call for a Rollback of High Interest Rates: Hearing, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session, on House Concurrent Resolutions 522 and 523 and Related Resolutions ... March 24, 1970 |
| Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | 18 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 59 pages |
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