Independent Offices Appropriations for 1967: Hearings ... 89th Congress, 2d Session, Part 2

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Page 264 - Service, shall (1) provide, or arrange for the provision of, indexing, abstracting? translating, and other services leading to a more effective dissemination of scientific information, and (2) undertake programs to develop new or improved methods, including mechanized systems, for making scientific information available.
Page 731 - The Board continued under the Federal Loan Agency until February 24. 1942, when by Executive Order No. 9070 the five-man Board was vacated and its Chairman was made Commissioner of the "Federal Home Loan Bank Administration," the units formerly under the Board being retained. The Executive order placed the Board under the National Housing Agency, together with the Federal Housing Administration and the Federal Public Housing Authority. Under Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1947, effective July 27, 1947,...
Page 449 - Special allowance dependents - Under certain conditions, a special allowance (38 USC 412) is payable to dependents of certain veterans who died after December 31, 1956, but who were not fully and currently Insured under the Social Security Act.
Page 865 - It is the purpose of this title to help curb urban sprawl and prevent the spread of urban blight and deterioration, to encourage more economic and desirable urban development, and to help provide necessary recreational, conservation, and scenic areas by assisting State and local governments in taking prompt action to preserve open-space land which is essential to the proper long-range development and welfare of the Nation's urban areas, in accordance with plans for the allocation of such land for...
Page 692 - Housing Amendments of 1955" (69 Stat. 635). It supervises the Federal Home Loan Bank System, the System of Federal Savings and Loan Associations, and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) . Federal Home Loan Bank Board Under Reorganization Plan No.
Page 607 - Department of Health. Education, and Welfare Department of the Interior Department of Justice Department of Labor Post Office Department Department of State Department of the Treasury...
Page 819 - State and local urban and suburban housing and building laws, standards, codes, and regulations and their impact on housing and building costs, how they can be simplified, Improved, and enforced, at the local level, and what methods might be adopted to promote more uniform building rodes and the acceptance of technical innovations including new building practices and materials...
Page 731 - Board has the authority to approve the Chairman's appointments of the heads of major administrative units, and the other members of the Board retain their control over the personnel in their immediate offices.
Page 122 - In exercising the authority and discharging the functions referred to in subsection (a) of this section, it shall be one of the objectives of the Foundation to strengthen basic research and education in the sciences, including independent research by individuals, throughout the United States, including its Territories and possessions, and to avoid undue concentration of such research and education.
Page 39 - Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I very much appreciate the opportunity to appear before...

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