National Resources Policy: Hearings, Eighty-first Congress, First Session. January 31, February 1-4, 7, 1949 |
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... cost of housing for all our people . In Alaska and in the continental United States on the unreserved public domain , the Department of the Interior has jurisdiction of substantial national timber resources . Experts tell us that the ...
... cost of housing for all our people . In Alaska and in the continental United States on the unreserved public domain , the Department of the Interior has jurisdiction of substantial national timber resources . Experts tell us that the ...
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... cost of less meat and wool tomorrow . All of the losses we have incurred from unwise use and spendthrift waste contribute in part to many of our present day shortages , and to the problems of increasing the national income tomorrow ...
... cost of less meat and wool tomorrow . All of the losses we have incurred from unwise use and spendthrift waste contribute in part to many of our present day shortages , and to the problems of increasing the national income tomorrow ...
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... cost necessary . ( The statement above requested is as follows :) This statement was submitted by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the request of Senator Cordon , amplified by the chairman : The following table shows , for the ...
... cost necessary . ( The statement above requested is as follows :) This statement was submitted by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the request of Senator Cordon , amplified by the chairman : The following table shows , for the ...
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... cost power there , you could be producing low - cost fertilizer today . Senator MILLER . Oh , yes ; very true . I know some little just of the theoretical problems of the application of electric power to mining operations and smelting ...
... cost power there , you could be producing low - cost fertilizer today . Senator MILLER . Oh , yes ; very true . I know some little just of the theoretical problems of the application of electric power to mining operations and smelting ...
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... cost much , are gone long since . Without power you will not have feasible reclamation . Senator MCFARLAND . And that would be another reason why you have to have coordination where you have two branches of your Department . Secretary ...
... cost much , are gone long since . Without power you will not have feasible reclamation . Senator MCFARLAND . And that would be another reason why you have to have coordination where you have two branches of your Department . Secretary ...
Common terms and phrases
acres agencies Alaska Alaska Highway Alaska Railroad amount appropriations areas Basin Bonneville Bonneville Dam Bonneville Power Administration Bureau of Reclamation CHAIRMAN CHAPMAN chart CLAWSON coal Columbia River committee Company CONGRESS THE LIBRARY conservation construction contract D'EWART dams DAVIDSON DAVIS Department DRURY economic facilities Federal Government field fiscal Fish and Wildlife forest funds Geological Survey going increase industry Interior irrigation kilowatts leases LIBRARY OF CONGRESS maps ment mineral National Park Service national park system Navajo operation Pacific Northwest percent petroleum plants population present Pribilof Islands problems production projects public lands Puerto Rico question recreational region reserves revenues River roads sealskins Secretary KRUG Senator ANDERSON Senator BUTLER Senator CORDON Senator ECTON Senator MCFARLAND Senator MILLER Senator WATKINS SHANKLIN soil statement STRAUS supply Territory timber tion United utilization Virgin Islands WARNE WRATHER ZIMMERMAN zinc
Popular passages
Page 95 - States, or if articles, materials, or supplies of the class or kind to be used or the articles, materials, or supplies from which they are manufactured are not mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case may be, in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available commercial quantities and of a satisfactory quality.
Page 95 - The contractor warrants that he has not employed any person to solicit or secure this contract upon any agreement for a commission, percentage, brokerage, or contingent fee. Breach of this warranty shall give the Government the right to annul the contract, or, in its discretion, to deduct from the contract price or consideration the amount of such commission, percentage, brokerage, or contingent fees.
Page 449 - ... to make scientific, technologic, and economic investigations concerning the extent and mode of occurrence, the development, mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances found in the United States or its Territories or insular possessions, which are essential to the common defense or the industrial needs of the United States, and the quantities or grades of which are inadequate from known domestic sources, in order to determine and develop domestic sources...
Page 95 - The wages of every laborer and mechanic employed by the contractor or any subcontractor engaged in the performance of this contract shall be computed on a basic day rate of eight hours per day and work in excess of eight hours per day...
Page 95 - District, which may require or involve the employment of laborers or mechanics shall contain a provision that no laborer or mechanic doing any part of the work contemplated by the contract in the employ of the contractor or any subcontractor contracting for any part of said work contemplated shall be required or permitted to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day...
Page 48 - That indicates that the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of Indian Affairs...
Page 94 - Contractor, including, but not restricted to, acts of God, or of the public enemy, acts of the Government, in either its sovereign or contractual capacity, acts of another contractor in the performance of a contract with the Government, fires, floods, epidemics, quarantine restrictions, strikes, freight embargoes, and unusually severe weather, or delays of subcontractors or suppliers due to such causes...
Page 95 - No Member of or Delegate to Congress or Resident Commissioner, shall be admitted to any share or part of this contract, or to any benefit that may arise therefrom. Nothing, however, herein contained shall be construed to extend to this contract if made with a corporation for its general benefit.
Page 322 - In truth, the ultimate point of rest and happiness for them is to let our settlements and theirs meet and blend together, to intermix, and become one people.
Page 95 - For each violation of the requirements of this section a penalty of five dollars shall be imposed upon the contractor for each laborer or mechanic for every calendar day in which such employee is required or permitted to labor more than eight hours upon said work without receiving compensation computed in accordance with this section, and all penalties thus imposed shall be withheld for the use and benefit of the Government...