Mobilization and Demobilization Problems: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, on S.1730, a Bill to Create an Office of Demobilization, Establish General Policies for the Operation of that Office, Provide for the Settlement of Claims Arising from Terminated War Contracts, Provide for the Disposal of Surplus Government Property, and for Other Purposes; S.1823, a Bill to Establish an Office of War Mobiliation and Adjustment, Parts 1-16U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944 - 1358 pages |
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... Washington , D. C. The subcommittee met at 10:30 a . m . , pursuant to adjournment , in the caucus room , Senate Office Building , Senator James E. Murray ( chairman ) presiding . Present : Senator Murray and Representative Gwynne ...
... Washington , D. C. The subcommittee met at 10:30 a . m . , pursuant to adjournment , in the caucus room , Senate Office Building , Senator James E. Murray ( chairman ) presiding . Present : Senator Murray and Representative Gwynne ...
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... Washington and the country will be flooded by experts who know all about how to solve the post - war problems . At the present time these experts are busy conducting the war or telling Washington what to do , and to conduct the war ...
... Washington and the country will be flooded by experts who know all about how to solve the post - war problems . At the present time these experts are busy conducting the war or telling Washington what to do , and to conduct the war ...
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... Washington , D. C. DEAR SENATOR MURRAY : During the presentation of my testimony before your Committee on War Contracts on April 26 you inquired whether profit figures of automobile manufacturers submitted for the record were before or ...
... Washington , D. C. DEAR SENATOR MURRAY : During the presentation of my testimony before your Committee on War Contracts on April 26 you inquired whether profit figures of automobile manufacturers submitted for the record were before or ...
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... Washington , he wrote me a splendid letter , and he finally wound up and said , " Well , General , the State of Washington has 45 percent more population today than it had in 1940. The problem is going to be : What are we going to do ...
... Washington , he wrote me a splendid letter , and he finally wound up and said , " Well , General , the State of Washington has 45 percent more population today than it had in 1940. The problem is going to be : What are we going to do ...
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... Washington , D. C. Washington , D. C. , May 4 , 1944 . DEAR SENATOR LUCAS : It is our best information that since January 1 , 1939 , approximately 50,000 farm families have been displaced from their homes in the acquisition of their ...
... Washington , D. C. Washington , D. C. , May 4 , 1944 . DEAR SENATOR LUCAS : It is our best information that since January 1 , 1939 , approximately 50,000 farm families have been displaced from their homes in the acquisition of their ...
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Page 631 - SEC. 404. The committee shall have the power, without regard to the civil-service laws and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended...
Page 326 - The Administrator shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall receive compensation at the rate of $10,000 a year.
Page 633 - ... (12) service performed in the employ of an instrumentality wholly owned by a foreign government — (A) if the service is of a character similar to that performed in foreign countries by employees of the United States Government or of an instrumentality thereof; and (B) if...
Page 642 - American aircraft under a contract of service which is entered into within the United States...
Page 633 - wages" means all remuneration for employment, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash ; except that such term shall not include...
Page 627 - He does not belong to a grade or class of workers of which, immediately before the commencement of the stoppage, there were members employed at the premises at which the stoppage occurs, any of whom are participating in or financing or directly interested in the dispute.
Page 331 - ... (b) It shall be the function of the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization to advise the President concerning the coordination of military, industrial, and civilian mobilization, including — (1) policies concerning industrial and civilian mobilization in order to assure the most effective mobilization and maximum utilization of the Nation's manpower in the event of war...
Page 184 - Senate, to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and five Members of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Page 335 - If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any . person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby. SEC. 16. This Act may be cited as the "National Labor Relations Act.
Page 274 - ... (c) Section 104 (h) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended (Public Law 480, Eighty-third Congress; 7 USC 1704) is amended by changing the period at the end thereof to a comma and adding...