Second Supplemental Appropriation Bill for 1951: Hearings Before Subcommittees of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session ... Commerce Department, District of Columbia, Independent Offices, Interior Department, Justice Department, Labor-Federal Security, State Department, Treasury Department

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950 - United States - 509 pages

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Page 312 - Therefore be it Resolved, That the Senate reaffirm the policy of the United States to achieve international peace and security through the United Nations so that armed force shall not be used except in the common interest...
Page 283 - USC 99). or of any other Federal law Imposing restrictions, requirements, or penalties In relation to the employment of persons, the performance of services, or the payment or receipt of compensation In connection with any claim, proceeding, or matter Involving the United States...
Page 283 - The President may, from time to time, promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper to carry out any of the provisions of this Act; and he may exercise any power or authority conferred on him by this Act through such department, agency, or officer as he shall direct.
Page 53 - If a dispute between a carrier and its employees be not adjusted under the foregoing provisions of this Act and should, in the judgment of the Board of Mediation, threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation service...
Page 243 - Labor, the Associated General Contractors of America, and the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Civil Engineers. The third paragraph has some "meat" in it: The main reasons for urging speedy reactivation may be summed up briefly.
Page 357 - The Congress recognizes that economic recovery is essential to international peace and security and must be given clear priority. The Congress also recognizes that the increased confidence of free peoples in their ability to resist direct or indirect aggression and to maintain internal security will advance such recovery and support political stability.
Page 186 - No officer or employee of the United States shall make or authorize an expenditure from or create or authorize an obligation under any appropriation or fund in excess of the amount available therein; nor shall any such officer or employee involve the Government in any contract or other obligation, for the payment of money for any purpose, in advance of appropriations made for such purpose, unless such contract or obligation is authorized by law.
Page 285 - Act, or any component or part thereof, used or required for use in connection therewith, or required in or for the manufacture, production, processing, storage, transportation, repair, or rehabilitation of any equipment or materials, but shall not include merchant vessels.
Page 284 - ... in such manner, at such time, and in such amounts as the President shall determine, and no interest shall be charged on advances made by the Treasury to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for this purpose. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation shall be repaid without interest for advances made by it hereunder, from funds made available for the purposes of this title.
Page 312 - Nations through measures which will further the ability of nations dedicated to the purposes and principles of the Charter to participate effectively in arrangements for individual and collective self-defense in support of those purposes...

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