Department of Defense Appropriations for 1962: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session Subcommittee on Department of Defense Appropriations George H. Mahon, Texas, Chairman Harry R. Sheppard, California Gerald R. Ford, Jr., Michigan Robert L.F. Sikes, Florida Harold C. Ostertag, New York Jamie L. Whitten, Mississippi Melvin R. Laird, Wisconsin George W. Andrews, Alabama Glenard P. Lipscomb John J. Riley, South Carolina Phil Weaver, Nebraska Daniel J. Flood, Pennsylvania William E. Minshall, Ohio Albert Thomas, Texas Samuel W. Crosby and Kelly Campbell, Staff Assistants to the Subcommittee ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 |
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