National War Agencies Appropriation Bill for 1945: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, on the National War Agencies Appropriation Bill for 1945, Parts 1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944 - Executive departments |
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... able to recruit a complete organization . As a matter of fact , we have lost more men in recent months than we have been able to employ . We have had , over the past year , an average of 1,415 people , and , as I say , today , we have ...
... able to recruit a complete organization . As a matter of fact , we have lost more men in recent months than we have been able to employ . We have had , over the past year , an average of 1,415 people , and , as I say , today , we have ...
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... able to keep up that rate since the war started . Last year we drilled , not 32,000 , but 19,000 . Over the coming year we hope to drill 24,000 . But at the present rate we will not succeed in doing that , largely on account of the ...
... able to keep up that rate since the war started . Last year we drilled , not 32,000 , but 19,000 . Over the coming year we hope to drill 24,000 . But at the present rate we will not succeed in doing that , largely on account of the ...
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... able to get , and then if anything happened that you were not able to get them you would not have sufficient men to make up the budget estimate ? Mr. DAVIES . I think that is correct . We will have great difficulty in bringing our force ...
... able to get , and then if anything happened that you were not able to get them you would not have sufficient men to make up the budget estimate ? Mr. DAVIES . I think that is correct . We will have great difficulty in bringing our force ...
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... able to produce and deliver all that you are able to transport ? Mr. DAVIES . Yes , that is correct . There is no idle transportation facility , that is , none that could be used to move military products . HIGH - OCTANE GAS FOR ...
... able to produce and deliver all that you are able to transport ? Mr. DAVIES . Yes , that is correct . There is no idle transportation facility , that is , none that could be used to move military products . HIGH - OCTANE GAS FOR ...
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... able to use a propeller more than 14 feet and now we have propellers that are 15 feet . We are going fifteen or sixteen thousand feet now . Do you think we will be able to go much deeper than that ? Mr. KNOWLTON . Mechanically I think ...
... able to use a propeller more than 14 feet and now we have propellers that are 15 feet . We are going fifteen or sixteen thousand feet now . Do you think we will be able to go much deeper than that ? Mr. KNOWLTON . Mechanically I think ...
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Page 402 - Congress, or both, any defense article for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.
Page 62 - IN THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND DEFINING ITS FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States...
Page 67 - President shall determine and, in addition, shall be entitled to actual and necessary transportation, subsistence and other expenses incidental to the performance of his duties.
Page 597 - When any such property or the use thereof is so requisitioned, the owner thereof shall be paid just compensation for the property taken or for the use of such property, but in no case shall the value of the property taken or used be deemed enhanced by the causes necessitating the taking or use.
Page 373 - ... days after such deferment is made, be submitted for review and decision to the appeal board having jurisdiction over the area in which is located the principal place of employment of the registrant.
Page 833 - We certify, that the above is a true and correct copy of a resolution adopted by the Board of Directors, of Tex-La Electric Cooperative, Inc., at a special meeting held in Alexandria, La., on July 3, 1958.
Page 597 - Commission to requisition or purchase any vessel or other watercraft owned by citizens of the United States, or under construction within the United States, or for any period during such emergency, to requisition or charter the use of any such property.
Page 62 - Now THEREFORE, By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy...
Page 597 - Whenever the President shall proclaim that the security of the national defense makes it advisable or during any national emergency declared by proclamation of the President...
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