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IMMEDI ATE RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 29, 1945
END OF THE EMERGENCY PERIOD DEFINED IN
SECTION 124 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATI ON
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VIHEREAS the need of emergency facilities for the
production of supplies and the furnishing of services required
for the national defense has in recent months been substantially
reduced:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in
me by section 124 of the Internal Revenue Code, do hereby pro-
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claim that the utilization of a substantial portion of the
emergency facilities with respect to which certifications under
subsection (f) of that section have been made is no longer re-
quired in the interest of national defense, and that the
emergency period defined in section 124(e) (2) of the Internal
Revenue Code (as amended) ends on the date hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand end
caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this twenty-ninth day
of September in the year of
our Lord nineteen hundred
(SEAL)
and forty-five and of the
Independence of the United
States of America the one
hundred and seventieth.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
By the President:
DEAN ACHESON
Acting Secretary of State.