Strategic and Critical Materials, Hearing ..., on S. 2152 ..., Dec 10, 1941, Parts 1-2 |
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Page 82 - The Corporation shall be entitled to the free use of the United States mails for its official business in the same manner as the executive departments of the Government, and shall determine its necessary expenditures under this Act and the manner in which they shall be incurred, allowed^ and paid, without regard to the provisions of any other law governing the expenditure of public funds.
Page 73 - I shall be glad to answer them to the best of my ability. The CHAIRMAN. Are there any further questions?
Page 41 - SEC. 5. That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,000,000, to be expended under the joint direction of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy...
Page 82 - Corporation ; and, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law governing the expenditure of public funds, the General Accounting Office, in the settlement of the accounts of the...
Page 3 - ... breeding or by selection, and to improve planting methods; to make surveys of areas suitable for cultivating guayule; to make experimental plantings; and to conduct agronomic tests; (6) To conduct tests, in which he may cooperate with any other public or private agency, to determine the qualities of rubber...
Page 82 - ... thousand acres of guayule inside the Western Hemisphere; and (9) To exercise with respect to rubber-bearing plants other than guayule the same powers as are granted in the foregoing provisions of this section with respect to guayule. SEC.
Page 4 - There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Page 4 - The Secretary with the consent of any executive department, independent establishment, or other agency of the Government, including any field service thereof, may avail himself of the use of information, services, facilities, officers, and employees thereof in carrying out the provisions of this title.
Page 4 - Board, in accordance with the civil-service laws, and whose compensation shall be fixed in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. Each such veterans...
Page 3 - Hemisphere where guayule might be grown; and to establish and maintain records indicating areas to which guayule cultivation could be extended for emergency production; (4) To construct or operate, or to contract for the operation of, factories for the extraction of rubber from guayule, and from Chrysothamnus, commonly known as rabbit brush; to purchase guayule shrub...
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| Title | Strategic and Critical Materials, Hearing ..., on S. 2152 ..., Dec 10, 1941, Parts 1-2 Strategic and Critical Materials, Hearing ..., on S. 2152 ..., Dec 10, 1941, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee onmilitary affairs |
| Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee onmilitary affairs |
| Published | 1941 |
| Length | 83 pages |
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