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Page 164 - The President shall transmit to the Congress at the beginning of each regular session...
Page 165 - An Act to authorize Federal assistance to States and local governments in major disasters, and for other purposes...
Page 160 - major disaster" means any hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high water, wind-driven water, tidal wave, earthquake, drought, fire, or other catastrophe in any part of the United States, which, in the determination of the President, is or threatens to be of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant disaster assistance by the Federal Government to supplement the efforts and available resources of States, local governments, and relief organizations in alleviating the damage, loss, hardship, or suffering...
Page 163 - The committee shall have the power, without regard to the civil-service laws and the Classification Act of 1923...
Page 165 - Stat. 7, hereinafter referred to as the Act, and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows: Section 1. The...
Page 160 - Major disaster" means any hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high water, wind-driven water, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudslide, snowstorm, drought, fire, explosion, or other catastrophe in any part of the United States which, in the determination of the President, causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant major disaster assistance under this Act, above and beyond emergency services by the Federal Government...
Page 4 - The atomic age has moved forward at such a pace that every citizen of the world should have some comprehension, at least, in comparative terms, of the extent of this development, of the utmost significance to every one of us.
Page 165 - President is authorized to coordinate in such manner as he may determine the activities of Federal agencies in providing disaster assistance. The President may...
Page 161 - President, to provide assistance by — (1) utilizing or lending, with or without compensation therefor, to States and local governments, their equipment, supplies, facilities, personnel, and other resources...
Page 4 - Atomic bombs today are more than 25 times as powerful as the weapons with which the atomic age dawned, while hydrogen weapons are in the ranges of millions of tons of TNT equivalent. Today, the United States' stockpile of atomic weapons, which, of course, increases daily, exceeds by many times the explosive equivalent of the total of all bombs and all shells that came from every plane and every gun in every theatre of war in all of the years of World War II.

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