Navy Department Appropriation Bill, 1928: Hearing Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations ... in Charge of the Navy Department Appropriations Bill for 1928. Sixty-ninth Congress, Second Session |
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Admiral BEURET Admiral BLOCH Admiral GREGORY Admiral HALLIGAN Admiral MOFFETT Admiral MORRIS Admiral NULTON Admiral SHOEMAKER Admiral STITT aircraft airship allocation allotted amount appropriation average aviation Budget buildings Bureau Bureau of Aeronautics Bureau of Navigation Captain BAKER Captain CROSLEY Captain LAND Cavite cent Chief Civil Engineer Corps Coco Solo Commander GUNNELL commission committee cost cruisers cubic feet destroyers duty employees engines enlisted equipment estimate for 1928 expenses fiscal year 1926 fleet force FRENCH fuel funds grade Guam Hampton Roads helium hospital included increase Island Lakehurst LEJEUNE Light cruisers maintenance Marine Corps material Medical Corps ment naval district Naval Reserve naval station Navy Department navy yards Nocona officers OLIVER operating ordnance Pearl Harbor personnel planes plant present purchase radio recruits reduced repairs San Diego Scouting Fleet ships shore squadrons statement subhead submarine Supply Corps TABER tion Total United upkeep vessels
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Page 264 - ... except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate...
Page 735 - And in all cases of contracts for the performance of any service, or the delivery of articles of any description, for the use of the United States, payment shall not exceed the value of the service rendered, or of the articles delivered previously to such payment.
Page 460 - Created by act of Congress approved March 3, 1915, for the supervision and direction of the scientific study of the problems of flight (US Code, Title 50, Sec.
Page 692 - PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF ENLISTED MEN ON THE RETIRED LIST Mr. FRENCH. The next item is for pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the retired list, $433,034, as against $417,007 General RICHARDS.
Page 800 - For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, $2,500.
Page 380 - ... the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade...
Page 288 - Government buildings and offices at the academy, including furniture for midshipmen's rooms; coal and other fuels; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up station and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, fire apparatus, and plants, and telephone, telegraph, and clock systems; incidental labor; advertising, water tax, postage, telephones, telegrams, tolls, and ferriage; flags and awnings; packing boxes...
Page 5 - Doheny on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government has been set for November 22, 1926, in the criminal division of the District of Columbia Supreme Court. No date has been set for the trial of the bribery cases or for the trial of Messrs. AB Fall and HF Sinclair in the other conspiracy case. STATUS OF RESERVE STORAGE The fuel-oil tanks constructed by the Mammoth Oil Co. at Portsmouth, NH, and the second series of tanks constructed by the Pan-American Oil Co. at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, were...
Page 325 - That hereafter the service of a cadet who may hereafter be appointed to the United States Military Academy, or to the Naval Academy, shall not be counted in computing for any purpose the length of service of any officer of the Army.
Page 735 - CONTINGENT EXPENSES For professional and technical books and periodicals, law books, and necessary reference books, including city directories, railway guides, freight, passenger, and express tariff books and photostating, for department library; for purchase of photographs, maps, documents, and pictorial records of the Navy, photostating and other necessary incidental expenses in connection with the preparation for publication of the naval records of the war with...