Department of Commerce Appropriation Bill for 1945: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, on the Department of Commerce Appropriation Bill for 1945U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943 - 252 pages |
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activities additional Admiral COLBERT Admiral LAND agencies agricultural aircraft airplane airport airways amount Army and Navy aviation BRIGGS British Budget Bureau of Foreign CAPT CARTER census CHAIRMAN charts Civil Aeronautics Administration Civil Aeronautics Board civilian committee commodities cost defense Department of Commerce Division Domestic Commerce employees equipment estimate expenses facilities field offices figure Foreign and Domestic funds G. M. JONES going Government HARE HENDRICKSON increase industrial KERLIN KERR lend-lease Lend-Lease Administration loans MACK Maritime Commission materials ment military months MULLIGAN National operation overtime Patent percent personnel pilots plants POGUE purchase RABAUT rates Reconstruction Finance Corporation record REICHELDERFER requested Secretary JONES STANTON statement stations STEFAN STETTINIUS STRIPLING supply TABER tion traffic transferred United United Kingdom vessels War Production Board War Shipping Administration Washington weather WICKARD WIGGLESWORTH
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Page 7 - Congress, or both, any defense article for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.
Page 112 - The President, in time of war, is empowered, through the Secretary of War, to take possession and assume control of any system or systems of transportation, or any part thereof, and to utilize the same to the exclusion, as far as may be necessary, of all other traffic thereon for the transfer or transportation of troops, war material, and equipment, or for such other purposes connected with the emergency as may be needful...
Page 144 - Congress any sum for purchase, maintenance, repair, or operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for any branch of the public service of the United States unless the same is specifically authorized by law...
Page 170 - ... (a) The encouragement and development of an air transportation system properly adapted to the present and future needs of the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States, of the Postal Service, and of the national defense...
Page 209 - Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Home Owners' Loan Corporation, Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, Federal Housing Administration, Electric Home and Farm Authority, and Export-Import Bank of Washington.
Page 104 - Then they will be in a position, so far as we can place them, to sell advantageously when the buy-boat comes along. They can know whether they are getting a fair price or not. I do not know how it is in other parts of the country, but in my immediate section where there are large catches of shad, there is no definite information as to the daily price of shad. The result is that when the buy-boats come from...
Page 268 - STATEMENT OF HON. J. EDGAR CHENOWETH, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF COLORADO Mr. CHENOWETH.
Page 18 - I have a question or two that I would like to ask about the project.
Page 198 - ... completed the tunnel or built it, or made a practical tunnel, and it only carries about 800 feet to-day, and it is a scratch whether it will carry that every year, that is not keeping faith with those people; that is not fair or honest, it seems to us. I do not want to take up the time of the committee further on that now. I ask the committee to adopt my two amendments to this bill pertaining to this project and to permit me to insert in this record for future reference my bill HR 9686 which...
Page 243 - Corporation. (d) The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized and empowered to make loans to bona fide institutions, organized under the laws of any State or of the United States and having resources adequate for their undertakings, for the purpose of enabling them to finance the carrying and orderly marketing of agricultural commodities and livestock produced in the United States.