National Highway Program: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session, on S. 1048, S. 1072, S. 1160, and S. 1573, Bills Relating to the National Highway ProgramU.S. Government Printing Office, 1955 - 1072 pages |
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Alaska amount appropriated approved areas authorized BALDOCK basis bill bond financing build Bureau of Public Chairman Clay committee Congress contract Corporation cost CURTISS debt dollars DU PONT estimated expenditures Federal aid Federal funds Federal Government Federal-Aid Highway Act financing fiscal gas tax gasoline tax going highway construction highway department highway program highway system improvement increase Interstate Highway System Interstate Highways Interstate System Koss legislation matching Mayor COBO Mayor WEST McCoy ment mileage miles million national defense needs Oklahoma percent PONT present primary projects proposed Public Roads question recommendations revenue bonds right-of-way routes secondary Secretary WEEKS Senator BUSH Senator BYRD Senator GORE Senator KERR Senator MARTIN Senator MCNAMARA Senator NEUBERGER Senator SYMINGTON Senator THURMOND South Dakota Stat statement STOLDT System of Interstate tion toll roads traffic Treasury TRIGGS United United States Highway urban vehicles WHITTON
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Page 63 - ... are not guaranteed by the United States and do not constitute a debt or obligation of the United States or of any agency or instrumentality thereof other than the Association.
Page 69 - Individuals so employed may be compensated at rates not in excess of $50 per diem and while away from their homes or regular places of business they may be allowed transportation and not to exceed $15 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses while so employed.
Page 89 - ... for the protection of the United States. (2) A payment bond with a surety or sureties satisfactory to such officer for the protection of all persons supplying labor and material in the prosecution of the work provided for in said contract for the use of each such person.
Page 90 - ... not less than the prevailing rate of wages for work of a similar nature prevailing in the vicinity shall be paid to such laborers or mechanics.
Page 94 - ... basic rate of pay for all hours worked in any workweek in excess of eight hours in any workday or forty hours in the workweek, as the case may be.
Page 312 - Specifications developed by the Bureau of Public Roads and the American Association of State Highway Officials will be used.
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