Agricultural Appropriation Bill for 1938: Hearings Before the Subcomittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 6523, a Bill Making Appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and for the Farm Credit Administration for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1938, and for Other PurposesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 - 886 pages |
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... observations along the airways . Installation of international figure code to replace present word code . For continuance of vital upper - air observations now made by Army planes but which the War Department is unable to continue . For ...
... observations along the airways . Installation of international figure code to replace present word code . For continuance of vital upper - air observations now made by Army planes but which the War Department is unable to continue . For ...
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... plan for collecting and distributing its extensive system of weather observations by telegraph , radio , and cable . Codes are necessary for reasons of expedition and economy , AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION BILL , 1338 3.
... plan for collecting and distributing its extensive system of weather observations by telegraph , radio , and cable . Codes are necessary for reasons of expedition and economy , AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION BILL , 1338 3.
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... observations collected and distributed through the organized system whereby , regardless of distance , a charge of ... observations received , and utilize the reports in preparing weather maps , diagrams , forecasts , etc. Moreover , the ...
... observations collected and distributed through the organized system whereby , regardless of distance , a charge of ... observations received , and utilize the reports in preparing weather maps , diagrams , forecasts , etc. Moreover , the ...
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... observations , in- struments must be furnished and installed , and over 1,200 observations a day from these stations alone must be handled at Weather Bureau terminal sta- tions in preparing more accurate weather charts and forecasts ...
... observations , in- struments must be furnished and installed , and over 1,200 observations a day from these stations alone must be handled at Weather Bureau terminal sta- tions in preparing more accurate weather charts and forecasts ...
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... observations are needed from stations along the Pacific coast and the Canadian border in order to guard against hazardous weather conditions moving into the United States and across airways without advanced warnings . This item for ...
... observations are needed from stations along the Pacific coast and the Canadian border in order to guard against hazardous weather conditions moving into the United States and across airways without advanced warnings . This item for ...
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acres Agricultural Adjustment Administration airway ALEXANDER allotment amount appropriation approved areas Assistant AUCHTER BENNETT BESLEY bill Budget estimate carried Chairman committee Congress cooperation cost cotton county agent crops dairy Department of Agriculture disease district Dutch elm disease engineering erosion experiment station farm farmers fiscal Forest Service Georgia going GORRELL Grade GRAY hearings home demonstration agent House increase investigations JUMP June 30 Junior land ment milk national forests NORCROSS operations payments percent personnel plant posi Progress Administration purchase question Region relief Resettlement Resettlement Administration roads salary Secretary of Agriculture Senator BANKHEAD Senator COPELAND Senator HAYDEN Senator MCKELLAR Senator O'MAHONEY Senator POPE Senator RUSSELL Senator SMITH Senator TOWNSEND Senator TYDINGS Senior SILCOX Soil Conservation Service specialist statement Stenographer TAPP tion TOLLEY trees United WARBURTON Washington Weather Bureau
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Page 718 - This unit was established in 1931 by the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture for research in health hazards of food constituents and contaminants, spray residues, and insecticides.
Page 219 - An Act To amend the Act entitled "An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes," approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, and for other purposes.
Page 223 - Agriculture in the survey, construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of roads and trails of primary importance for the protection, administration, and utilization of the national forests, or when necessary, for the use and development of resources upon which communities within or adjacent to the national forests are dependent...
Page 6 - That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make such expenditures for equipment, supplies, and materials, including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and to employ such means as may be necessary to execute the functions imposed upon him by this Act.
Page 705 - Department, particularly the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils and the Bureau of Agricultural Engineering and the Bureau of Plant Industry, was transferred to the Soil Conservation Service and consolidated in that Service.
Page 154 - Division of the but shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the terms of the Smith-Lever Act, and when so approved shall be executed by the Extension Division of said . (d) That the headquarters of the state organization contemplated in this memorandum shall be at . IV.
Page 223 - forest development roads and trails" means those forest roads or trails of primary importance for the protection, administration, and utilization of the national forests, or where necessary, for the use and development of the resources upon which communities within or adjacent to the national forests are dependent. The term "forest highway...
Page 69 - Dairy investigations : For conducting investigations, experiments, and demonstrations in dairy industry, cooperative investigations of the dairy industry in the various States, and inspection of renovatedbutter factories, including repairs to buildings, not to exceed $5,000 for the construction of buildings 633, 199. 00 Total, Bureau of Dairy Industry, $703,694, of which amount not to exceed $313,020 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Page 219 - For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 23 of the Federal Highway Act, approved November 9, 1921, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for forest...
Page 153 - To organize and maintain at said college a definite and distinct administrative division for the management and conduct of extension work in agriculture and home economics, with a responsible leader selected by the college and satisfactory to the Department of Agriculture.