Sundry Civil Bill,1920, Hearings . . . 65th Congress, 3d Session., Pt.1,2

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Page 233 - ... title or possession, by purchase or requisition of constructed vessels, or parts thereof, or charters therein ; and the operation, management and disposition of such vessels, and of all other vessels heretofore or hereafter acquired by the United States.
Page 42 - The President may exercise the power and authority hereby vested in him, and expend the money herein and hereafter appropriated through such agency or agencies as he shall determine from time to time, Provided: That all money turned over to the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation may be expended as other moneys of said corporation are now expended. All ships constructed, purchased, or requisitioned under authority herein, or heretofore or hereafter acquired by the United States,...
Page 232 - An Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes,
Page 232 - ... contracts for the construction of such vessels, and the completion thereof, and all power and authority applicable to and in furtherance of the production, purchase, and requisitioning of materials for ship construction.
Page 221 - December 1918 he served as a government statistician, first for the central bureau of planning and statistics of the War Industries Board...
Page 218 - The cost of purchasing, requisitioning, or otherwise acquiring plants, material, charters, or ships now constructed or in the course of construction and the expediting of construction of ships thus under construction shall not exceed the sum of $250,000,000, exclusive of the cost of ships turned over to the Army and Navy, the expenditure of which is hereby authorized, and in executing the authority granted by this act for such purpose the President shall not expend or obligate the United States to...
Page 198 - ... of any number of groups or airplanes that may constitute the air services striking force. That is the production capacity of the factories which must supply the aircraft and their components. It is a well-known fact in the services and in the industry that starting from any given rate of production it takes from a year to a year and a half to double production, and then it may be doubled again in from 6 to 9 months and doubled again in 3 months, assuming that an all-out order is given. The experience...
Page 42 - ... made payable at such time within fifty years after issue as the Secretary of the Treasury may fix, instead of fifty years after the date of issue, as prescribed in the act of August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine. The proceeds of such bonds and the net proceeds of all sales, charters, and leases of vessels and of sales of stock...
Page 60 - For the acquisition or establishment of plants suitable for shipbuilding or ship maintenance or repair, or of materials essential thereto, and for the enlargement or extension of such plants as are now or may be hereafter acquired or established...
Page 232 - The Comptroller General of the United States is authorized and directed to cause an audit to be made of the financial transactions of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, in accordance with the usual methods of steamship or corporation accounting and under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe.

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