War Department Appropriation Bill, 1924, Hearings Before the Subcommittee of ... , 67-4 on H.R. 137931923 - 252 pages |
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... cost a great deal more money . The Army was re- cruited up to its full strength , and as the reductions occurred ... cost about $ 32 per man , as opposed in the past to an amount varying from $ 82 to $ 127 . Due to the fact that it has ...
... cost a great deal more money . The Army was re- cruited up to its full strength , and as the reductions occurred ... cost about $ 32 per man , as opposed in the past to an amount varying from $ 82 to $ 127 . Due to the fact that it has ...
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... cost could be shown ? Senator WADSWORTH . Yes . Can you get that and give it to the reporter ? General DAVIS . I will insert it in the record . The CHAIRMAN . All right . Are there any other questions on that point ? Is there anything ...
... cost could be shown ? Senator WADSWORTH . Yes . Can you get that and give it to the reporter ? General DAVIS . I will insert it in the record . The CHAIRMAN . All right . Are there any other questions on that point ? Is there anything ...
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... cost of about $ 105,000 ; and if this word is not inserted so that it will apply to the departmental binding only , the total amount which will be available to the Chief of Engi- neers will be $ 45,000 instead of $ 105,000 . The same ...
... cost of about $ 105,000 ; and if this word is not inserted so that it will apply to the departmental binding only , the total amount which will be available to the Chief of Engi- neers will be $ 45,000 instead of $ 105,000 . The same ...
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... cost money . This is the estimate submitted by the engineers as the cost of building the road . Senator WADSWORTH . I do not see on my side slip here any refer- ence to a road or any language which would authorize the building of a road ...
... cost money . This is the estimate submitted by the engineers as the cost of building the road . Senator WADSWORTH . I do not see on my side slip here any refer- ence to a road or any language which would authorize the building of a road ...
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... cost . If this is to be wholly spent out- side while the men are entirely idle except for a little drilling every day , I do not like it . Colonel BOGGS . I think you will find there is very little idleness in the Hawaiian Islands ...
... cost . If this is to be wholly spent out- side while the men are entirely idle except for a little drilling every day , I do not like it . Colonel BOGGS . I think you will find there is very little idleness in the Hawaiian Islands ...
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Air Service ALIFAS allowed amendment amount appropriation bill arsenal asked barges Budget buildings Bureau Captain CHAPPELL Captain MACKAY carry Chairman Chief Colonel BOGGS Colonel HAMMOND Colonel LOCKE Colonel WADSWORTH Colonel WALTON committee Congress construction Corps Area cost Department division Engineers enlisted equipment estimate expenses Field Artillery fiscal year 1924 FLINT Fort Benning Fort Myer funds Government Hawaiian Islands HEINTZELMAN increase Interstate Commerce Commission JONES of Washington June 30 LASSITER maintenance matériel ment mileage military posts month National Guard necessary Ohio River operation Organized Reserves Panama Canal PATRICK present Quartermaster railroad reduced regimental repair Reserve Corps reserve officers revenue river and harbor salaries Secretary of War Secretary WEEKS Senator HARRIS Senator HITCHCOCK Senator JONES Senator SPENCER Senator WADSWORTH statement subsistence supplies TAYLOR tion transportation troops United WALKER War Department Warrior River WOOD
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Page 169 - No estimate or request for an appropriation and no request for an. Increase in an item of any such estimate or request, and no recommendation as to how the revenue needs of the Government should be met, shall be submitted to Congress or any committee thereof by any officer or employee of any department or establishment, unless at the request of either House of Congress.
Page 135 - Canal, any greater number of persons than are specified* in the notes submitted respectively in connection with the estimates for each of said appropriations in the annual Book of Estimates for said year, nor shall there be paid to any...
Page 83 - A reserve officer shall not be entitled to pay and allowances except when on active duty. When on active duty he shall receive [the same pay and allowances as an officer of the Regular Army of the same grade and length of active service, and] mileage from his home to his first station and from his last station to his home, but shall not be entitled to retirement or retired pay.
Page 72 - ... New York, the health officer is not a medical man; he is a doctor of philosophy, and is an admirable officer, who has had one term of office. So the movement is not in any sense a movement by the medical profession or by any particular school in the medical profession. There is one other point that I would like to speak of, and that is in regard to the advisability of having the head of this department a cabinet officer. We have the feeling, not merely in the medical profession, but in the scientific...
Page 30 - We hope if we get a little growth at intervals that after a while it will spread, but up to the present time we have not been able to find anything that can be placed as cheaply as we think we can get if we continue these experiments.
Page 169 - Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge" of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available...
Page 96 - For travel of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Regular Army in connection with the National Guard.
Page 107 - For the purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipment, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture...
Page 57 - It may be added that the Director of the Bureau of the Budget advises that the expenditure contemplated by the proposed legislation is not in conflict with the financial program of the President.
Page 135 - July, nineteen hundred and seventeen ; and all employments made or compensation increased because of emergencies or conditions so arising shall be specifically set forth, with the reasons therefor, by the governor in his report for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.