Replies from Executive Departments and Federal Agencies to Inquiry Regarding Use of Advisory Committees: (January 1, 1953, to January 1, 1956)

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956

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Page 37 - Senate, not more than three of whom shall belong to the same political party. The Advisory Board shall meet at the call of the...
Page 889 - The development of methods for testing materials, mechanisms, and structures, and the testing of materials, supplies, and equipment, including items purchased for use of Government departments and independent establishments. (d) Cooperation with other governmental agencies and with private organizations in the establishment of standard practices, incorporated in codes and specifications.
Page 887 - The bureau is authorized to exercise its functions for the Government of the United States, for any State or municipal government within the United States, or for any scientific society, educational institution, firm, corporation, or individual within the United States engaged in manufacturing or other pursuits requiring the use of standards or standard measuring instruments.
Page 268 - Committee. (2) It shall be the duty of the Chairman to preside at all meetings and to maintain compliance with established procedures.
Page 7 - Commission (hereinafter referred to as the commission), which shall be composed of five commissioners, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Page 627 - Growers and active for many years in the nut-growing industry, has served for a number of years on the board of directors of the Oregon Nut Growers Association.
Page 697 - No allotment and no payment under any allotment shall be made for any fiscal year in excess of the amount which Puerto Rico or the State or Territory makes available for such fiscal year out of its own funds for research and for the establishment and maintenance of necessary facilities for the prosecution of such research.
Page 12 - Act, and, except in the case of a lease, no payment shall be made by the United States for any such area until title thereto is satisfactory to the Attorney General and is vested in the United States.
Page 887 - Government; the construction, when necessary, of standards, their multiples and subdivisions; the testing and calibration of standard measuring apparatus; the solution of problems which arise in connection with standards; the determination of physical constants and properties of materials, when such data are of great importance to scientific or manufacturing interests and are not to be obtained of sufficient accuracy elsewhere.
Page 90 - Justice retains complete freedom to institute proceedings, either civil or criminal, or both, in the event that any particular plan or course of action is used to accomplish unlawful private ends.

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