Surplus Property Act of 1944: Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Department, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 5125, a Bill to Provide for the Disposal of Surplus Government Property and Plants, August 7,8, and 9, 1944 |
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... going into extensive hearings on this bill . Of course , we are your guests here and we are not attempt- ing to run your committee or to tell you how to run it , but that is our thought , and is also the thought of the leadership . I ...
... going into extensive hearings on this bill . Of course , we are your guests here and we are not attempt- ing to run your committee or to tell you how to run it , but that is our thought , and is also the thought of the leadership . I ...
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... going to ask to make a statement about the bill . Mr. COCHRAN . Before he does that , I would like to ask a question . You stated you felt there should be some amendments to this bill . I read part 1 of the hearings of your committee ...
... going to ask to make a statement about the bill . Mr. COCHRAN . Before he does that , I would like to ask a question . You stated you felt there should be some amendments to this bill . I read part 1 of the hearings of your committee ...
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... going ahead . Mr. WALTER . Mr. Chairman , may I suggest that if you will permit Mr. Folsom to make a statement in reference to this matter and explain the bill , I think that at the conclusion of his statement you will be convinced that ...
... going ahead . Mr. WALTER . Mr. Chairman , may I suggest that if you will permit Mr. Folsom to make a statement in reference to this matter and explain the bill , I think that at the conclusion of his statement you will be convinced that ...
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... going to report this bill I think the chair- men of other committees who have had bills relating to this subject should be on record so we will not have a fight on the floor of the House in reference to amendments . The CHAIRMAN . Let ...
... going to report this bill I think the chair- men of other committees who have had bills relating to this subject should be on record so we will not have a fight on the floor of the House in reference to amendments . The CHAIRMAN . Let ...
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... going to need rather badly , and if we leave it to the War Department they may be stored up in some quartermaster depot . For example , there will probably be many bull- dozers and tractors as well as other equipment that is badly ...
... going to need rather badly , and if we leave it to the War Department they may be stored up in some quartermaster depot . For example , there will probably be many bull- dozers and tractors as well as other equipment that is badly ...
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acquired acres administrative property Advisory Board amendment appraised appropriate Army authority bill CHAIRMAN CHURCH CLAYTON COCHRAN COLMER Colonel OLMSTEAD committee commodities Commodity Credit Corporation Congress determination DIRKSEN disposal agency disposal of surplus dispose of property disposition Economic equipment Executive order farm Federal FOLSOM Food Administration foreign Foreign Economic Administration former owners give going GOSSETT Government agency handling hearings industry Justice Byrnes land language legislation Maritime Commission matter McCONNELL ment Navy operation plants policies post-war president problem production provision purchase question recommended Reconstruction Finance Corporation reference regulations representatives responsibility Sangamon County schools Secretary of Agriculture Secretary WICKARD section 12 sell sold statement STILWELL suggest surplus Government property Surplus Property Administrator Surplus War Property thing tion transfer trucks United veterans VOORHIS War Department War Powers Act WHITTINGTON WOLVERTON ZIMMERMAN
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Page 8 - Act, or the application of such provision to any . person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby. SEC. 16. This Act may be cited as the "National Labor Relations Act.
Page 20 - The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the motion of the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr.
Page 175 - I should like to have the committee's view, so we will go into executive session. (Thereupon, the committee proceeded to the consideration of executive business, after which it adjourned...
Page 34 - THEREFORE, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States...
Page 58 - AFTERNOON SESSION (The committee reassembled, pursuant to the taking of recess, at 2 pm, Hon.
Page 2 - contractor inventory" means (1) any property related to a terminated contract of any type with a Government agency or to a subcontract thereunder; and (2) any property acquired under a contract pursuant to the terms of which title is vested in the Government, and in excess of the amounts needed to complete performance thereunder; and (3) any property which the Government is obligated to take over under any type of contract as a result of any change in the specifications or plans thereunder. (g) The...
Page 5 - ... (p) to foster the development of new independent enterprise; (q) to prevent insofar as possible unusual and excessive profits being made out of surplus property; (r) to dispose of surplus property as promptly as feasible without fostering monopoly or restraint of trade...
Page 7 - The authority conferred by this Act is in addition to any authority conferred by any other law and shall not be subject to the provisions of any law inconsistent herewith.
Page 52 - Market value is the highest price estimated in terms of money which the land will bring if exposed for sale in the open market, with a reasonable time allowed to find a purchaser, buying with full knowledge of all the uses and purposes to which it is adapted, and for which it is capable of being used" * * * "the highest sum which the property is worth to persons generally * * *
Page 184 - Act of 1923, as amended, and may, without regard to the provisions of the civilservice laws and the Classification Act...