Construction of Aircraft and Public Works: Hearings Before the Committee on Naval Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, on S. 4024 (H.R. 9848) Bills to Authorize the Construction Or Acquisition of Naval Aircraft, the Construction of Certain Public Works, and for Other Purposes. May 23 and 24, 1940 |
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adequate Admiral STARK Admiral TOWERS air base air force appropriation bill approximately Army and Navy battleships bombers bombs build Bureau of Aeronautics carriers CHAIRMAN Coco Solo combatant planes Commander COMBS committee Congress construction contemplate contract authorization contractor correct cost course defense delivery executive session fighting planes fleet flight training foreign orders Hepburn Board included Jacksonville July large number limit Marine Corps McPHADEN mean military planes naval air naval aircraft naval airplanes naval aviation Navy Department number of aircraft number of planes obsolete operate patrol planes Pensacola percent planes for training present President procurement productive capacity question replacements Senator BARBOUR Senator BYRD Senator DAVIS Senator ELLENDER Senator GERRY Senator GILLETTE Senator HALE Senator JOHNSON Senator LUCAS Senator RUSSELL Senator TYDINGS shore bases shore-based squadrons statement total number training facilities training planes training purposes United yesterday
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Page 2 - The cost-plus-a-percentage-of-cost system of contracting shall not be used, and in the case of a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract the fee shall not exceed 10 per centum of the estimated cost of the contract, exclusive of the fee, as determined by the agency head...
Page 46 - ... of such estimated cost is authorized in any such contract for experimental, developmental, or research work and that a fee inclusive of the contractor's...
Page 53 - At this juncture the committee will take a recess until 2 o'clock. (At 12 :53 pm a recess was taken until 2 pm of the same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION The hearing was resumed at 2 pm, upon the expiration of the recess.
Page 1 - Act for the fiscal year 1941, the limit of cost indicated for each of such projects may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, be varied upward or downward by an amount not to exceed 10 per centum, but the aggregate of all such limits of cost shall not be exceeded.
Page 31 - Executive, for he can be tried by impeachment and removed from office ; he is raised above the members of the Senate and the Members of the House of Representatives, for they may be expelled upon a two-thirds vote of the members of their respective bodies.
Page 1 - AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and, House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to...
Page 23 - States is hereby authorized to acquire or construct naval airplanes and spare parts and equipment as may be necessary to provide and maintain the number of useful naval airplanes at a total of...
Page 38 - He drew his needier because it was better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it...
Page 1 - The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to establish, develop, or increase naval aviation facilities with which shall be included the authority to, purchase, accept by gift, or otherwise acquire land and to construct buildings and accessories, with approximate costs as indicated, at or in the vicinity of...
Page 5 - ... of war, not less than the naval aviation strength set forth in this bill. To meet these needs, we are placing the immediate stress on training. Naval operations in the Atlantic in protection of the Western Hemisphere should be supported by such naval aircraft as can be shipbased, as by carriers, cruisers, and battleships, and by naval shore-based or tender-based aircraft strategically distributed, wherever it may be necessary to oppose enemy naval operations, or to oppose the approach overseas...