Department of Commerce Appropriations for 1951: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session. February 6, 1950U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950 - 1059 pages |
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Page 1320
... percent of the total budget . This includes the budgets of Civil Aeronautics Administration , Public Roads , Weather Bureau , and Coast and Geodetic Survey . ( 4 ) Only $ 7,800,000 of the Department's total of nearly $ 800 , - 000,000 ...
... percent of the total budget . This includes the budgets of Civil Aeronautics Administration , Public Roads , Weather Bureau , and Coast and Geodetic Survey . ( 4 ) Only $ 7,800,000 of the Department's total of nearly $ 800 , - 000,000 ...
Page 1325
... percent over the corresponding period last year . In the year just closed , the Bureau completed approximately 25 percent of the requests made of it for geodetic data and services , and in the current year it is estimated it will ...
... percent over the corresponding period last year . In the year just closed , the Bureau completed approximately 25 percent of the requests made of it for geodetic data and services , and in the current year it is estimated it will ...
Page 1332
... percentage of 11 percent in unemployment , you are in the area of danger . My area or our 1332.
... percentage of 11 percent in unemployment , you are in the area of danger . My area or our 1332.
Page 1333
... percentage of unemployment close to 17 percent . If 11 percent is dangerous I think we may agree that 17 percent is rather desperate under the circumstances . And when I speak of my district , it is an example of three or four districts ...
... percentage of unemployment close to 17 percent . If 11 percent is dangerous I think we may agree that 17 percent is rather desperate under the circumstances . And when I speak of my district , it is an example of three or four districts ...
Page 1337
... percent , of three - quarters of a percent , which will protect local bankers in loans that they make to small businesses . He has a two - fold objective in mind . One is to get money for the little fellow and the other is to get it ...
... percent , of three - quarters of a percent , which will protect local bankers in loans that they make to small businesses . He has a two - fold objective in mind . One is to get money for the little fellow and the other is to get it ...
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accident actual 1950 estimate additional Administration Admiral COLBERT agencies air lines Air traffic control aircraft airport Alaska amount appropriation asked BAYNE BLAISDELL Board budget Bureau carriers CAWLEY Chairman chart Civil Aeronautics Civil Aeronautics Administration Civil Aeronautics Board Commission committee Congress contract authorization correct cost decennial census Department of Commerce Division Eastern Air Lines employees equipment estimate 1951 estimate facilities Federal Airport Act field figure fiscal year 1951 FLOOD funds GLADIEUX going Government HAUSER HENSLEY highway HORNE industry insert installation instrument landing system investigation justifications MACDONALD maintenance McCLURKIN ment MULLIGAN Municipal O'CONNELL Office operation Pay increases percent Permanent positions personal services personnel PRESTON projects Public Law 429 question radar record RENTZEL roads ROONEY salary SCHULER staff statement statistics STEFAN STUART survey TARWATER teletype things tion Total obligations towers transportation United
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Page 1352 - The result is in effect a cost-plus system of subsidies under which the carriers are virtually guaranteed against bankruptcy. Since the "need clause" is written in terms of individual air carriers, a further result is that the payments to particular carriers vary greatly, depending upon their relative financial needs. For example, among the trunk-line carriers, the mail payments to one air line during the calendar year 1948 were at the rate of approximately...
Page 1321 - A realistic answer must be based on a study of all phases of highway financing, including a study of the costs of completing the several systems of highways, made by the Bureau of Public Roads in cooperation with the State highway departments and local units of government.
Page 1845 - The Board shall by order disapprove any such contract or agreement, whether or not previously approved by it, that it finds to be adverse to the public interest, or in violation of this Act, and shall by order approve any such contract or agreement, or any modification or cancellation thereof, that it does not find to be adverse to the public interest, or in violation of this Act...
Page 1362 - Bureau of Standards, the Weather Bureau, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Office of Technical Services.
Page 1831 - One weakness common among the commissions is particularly serious in the Civil Aeronautics Board — lack of efficient centralized administration and supervision of the staff. Our general discussion has emphasized that an agency headed by five members tends to be more preoccupied with the adjudication of cases presented to it than with the organization and direction of its staff work. This is true of the Civil Aeronautics Board. The Board has adopted no adequate methods to facilitate presentation...
Page 1425 - The number, form, and subdivision of the inquiries in the schedules used to take the census shall be determined by the Director of the Census with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce.
Page 1985 - Stull informed me this morning thnt the export license for the 73-octane avigas has been granted. I hasten to write to you to express our deep gratification in the matter and especially to tell you how much we appreciate what you have done to bring It about. I am sure you still remember the prolonged and inconclusive series of meetings last summer, which must have been as agonizing to you as they were to me, during which a large number of questions were raised in connection with China's application...
Page 2110 - That these funds shall be expended on a system of such roads selected by the State highway departments in cooperation with the county supervisors, county commissioners, or other appropriate local road officials and the Commissioner of Public Roads...
Page 1444 - After years of individual efforts to solve the problem of all-weather flying, every significant branch of military and civil aviation now has agreed on the details of a new air navigation system which will meet the needs of all. Such a system has been approved by the Congressional Aviation Policy Board and the President's Air Policy Commission.
Page 1316 - Mississippi OEOROE W. ANDREWS, Alabama JOHN J. ROONEY, New York J. VAUOHAN GARY, Virginia JOHN E.