Department of Defense and Related Independent Agencies Appropriations for 1953: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session, Parts 1-2

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Page 254 - In enacting this legislation, it is the intent of Congress to provide a comprehensive program for the future security of the United States; to provide for the establishment of integrated policies and procedures for the departments, agencies, and functions of the Government relating to the national security...
Page 260 - USC 2805 provides authority to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of the Military Departments...
Page 377 - We thank you for your appearance and the information that you have given the committee.
Page 338 - Defense, namely, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Munitions Board and the Research and Development Board.
Page 284 - Board, and an Under Secretary or Assistant Secretary from each of the three military departments, to be designated in each case by the Secretaries of their respective departments. The Chairman shall be appointed from civilian life by the President...
Page 29 - William S. Paley, chairman of the board of the Columbia Broadcasting System; Robert Lehman, New York investment banker; financier Henry Ittleson, Jr.; and Nathan Cummings, chairman of Consolidated Foods Corporation.
Page 204 - All uranium, thorium, and all other materials determined pursuant to section 5 (b) (1) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 761) to be peculiarly essential to the production of fissionable material, contained, in whatever concentration, in deposits in the lands covered by this...
Page 350 - Appeals to fill the office for the period of disability. (b) The Court of Military Appeals shall review the record in the following cases: (1) All cases in which the sentence, as affirmed by a board of review, affects a general or flag officer or extends to death; (2) All cases reviewed by a board of review which The Judge Advocate General orders forwarded to the Court of Military Appeals for review; and (3) All cases reviewed by a board of review in which, upon petition of the accused and on good...
Page 338 - Welfare, the Department of Commerce, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Justice, the Department of Labor, and the General Services Administration.
Page 246 - Pursuant to the authority vested in the Secretary of Defense by the National Security Act of 1947, as amended...

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