War Department Appropriation Bill for 1934 (Military Activities): Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Seventy-second Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 14199 : Bill Making Appropriations for the Military and Nonmilitary Activities of the War Department for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1934, and for Other Purposes

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1933 - 763 pages

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Page 117 - To each enlisted man not furnished quarters or rations in kind there shall be granted, under such regulations as the President may prescribe, an allowance for quarters and subsistence, the value of which shall depend on the conditions under which the duty of the man is being performed, and shall not exceed $5 per day...
Page 232 - Government-owned passenger motor vehicle or aircraft not used exclusively for official purposes; and "official purposes" shall not include the transportation of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment, except in cases of medical officers on out-patient medical service and except in cases of officers and employees engaged in field work the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary and then only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by...
Page 104 - All claims and demands whatever by the Government of the United States or against it, and all accounts whatever in which the Government of the United States is concerned, either as debtor or creditor, shall be settled and adjusted in the General Accounting Office.
Page 232 - That no part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen for the purchase of any typewriting machine at a price in excess of the lowest price paid by the Government of the United States for the same make and substantially the same model of machine during the...
Page 101 - Where it appears that the loss or destruction of the private property of the claimant was in consequence of his having given his attention to the saving of the property...
Page 339 - Hereafter all moneys arising from disposition authorized by law and regulation of serviceable ordnance and ordnance stores shall constitute one fund on the books of the Treasury Department, which shall be available to replace ordnance and ordnance stores throughout the fiscal year in which the disposition •was effected and throughout the following year.
Page 192 - Academy, be furnished by the Government at cost, subject to such restrictions and regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may...
Page 28 - Army's miniature armored forces of that day said explosively that "they suffer tremendously from one thing and one thing only — -that Congress will not give them enough money to equip them properly with modern tanks.
Page 739 - States proposal for a division of land forces into a 'police component' and a 'defence component' will require very careful examination; but so far as His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom understand the implication of the suggested basis of calculation, the result will be to show that the British land forces have already been reduced substantially below the number recognized to be necessary for the maintenance of internal order, without making any allowance for the forces needed for the...
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