Engineering, Scientific, and Business Research: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 - 98 pages |
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administration agricultural allocation American Chemical Society appropriations authorized basic BEESLEY believe BLAKEY BOREN BRIGGS Bureau of Foreign Bureau of Standards business research stations carried Chairman Chemical Commission Congress consideration cooperation Dean Department of Commerce discoveries economic educational effect EICHER employment engineering research established Federal aid Federal Government feel field fiscal FOSTER funds grants hearings ideas industry institutions interested inventions inventor investigations JENNINGS RANDOLPH June 30 KNOWLTON labor laboratory land-grant colleges land-grant institutions Lanham bill legislation legislature letter manganese matter ment National Research Council National Resources Committee organization patent plan or project present President problems Progress Administration purpose question Randolph bill referred research agencies research plan result RICHTMEYER Robinson Rodman scientific research Secretary of Commerce seems SNAVELY South Dakota standpoint subcommittee technological Thank tion University of Virginia Washington WOLVERTON Woolrich
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Page 6 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with Agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate and distribute among the people, new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 7 - ... (1) any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed, shall be appointed for the remainder of such term; and (2) the terms of office of the members first taking office after the date of the enactment of this Act...
Page 7 - SEC. 7. That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or modify the legal relation existing between any of the said colleges and the government of the States or Territories in which they are respectively located.
Page 6 - ... the establishment and maintenance of a permanent and efficient agricultural industry, and such economic and sociological investigations as have for their purpose the development and improvement of the rural home and rural life, and for printing and disseminating the results of said researches.
Page 6 - Agriculture to furnish forms, as far as practicable, for the tabulation of results of investigation or experiments; to indicate, from time to time, such lines of inquiry as to him shall seem most important; and, in general, to furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purposes of this act.
Page 7 - MER shall end on January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year.
Page 3 - No commissioner shall engage in any other business, vocation, or employment than that of serving as commissioner, nor shall any commissioner participate, directly or indirectly, in any stock-market operations or transactions of a character subject to regulation by the Commission pursuant to this title.
Page 4 - That the principal office of the Commission shall be in the city of Washington, where its general sessions shall be held ; but whenever the convenience of the public or...
Page 7 - SEC. 2. That the sums hereby authorized to be appropriated to the States and Territories for the further endowment and support of agricultural experiment stations shall be annually paid in equal quarterly payments on the 1st day of January, April, July, and October of each year by the Secretary of the Treasury upon a warrant of the Secretary of Agriculture out of the Treasury of the United States to the treasurer...
Page 2 - It shall be the duty of each of said stations, annually, on or before the first day of February, to make to the governor of the State or Territory in which it is located a full and detailed report of its operations, including a statement of receipts and expenditures...