Relief for War Minerals Producers: Hearings Before the Committee on Mines and Mining, House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, Second Session, on H.J. Res. 170 |
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allowed amount appeal armistice Ashcraft-Wilkinson Attorney auditor award bill BLAKE Brookton Bureau of Mines Callaway capacity cent CHAIRMAN Chestatee Pyrites chrome chromic oxide chromite claim claimants commercial importance commission Congress construction construed contract Corporation cost court DICKEY ECHOLS engineer expenditures expenses fact figures Gainesville gentlemen George GEORGE L George Otis Smith Government stimulation HAAK hearing HOLMES Industries Board interposing June 18 KINKAID letter long ton losses LUHRING machinery manganese matter ment mill Minerals Relief MOORE N. P. Pratt November 11 operation PARRISH plant profits purchase Pyrites & Chemical question railroad RAKER reason record request or demand RHODES ROBSION rule Secretary Lane Senator Shafroth Shipping Board SMITH statement statute sulphur thing tion tonnage tons United W. S. HOWARD War Industries Board War Trade Board WATKINS WINGO words
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Page 297 - An act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of those ores, metals, and minerals which have formerly been largely imported, or of which there is or may be an inadequate supply.
Page 559 - That nothing In this Section shall be construed to confer Jurisdiction upon any court to entertain a suit against the United States.
Page 511 - The said Secretary shall make such adjustments and payments in each case as he shall determine to be just and equitable; that the decision of said Secretary shall be conclusive and final, subject to the limitation hereinafter provided ; that all payments and expenses incurred by said Secretary, including personal services, traveling and subsistence expenses, supplies, postage, printing, and all other expenses incident to the proper prosecution of this work, both in the District of Columbia and elsewhere,...
Page 118 - ... have been suffered by any person, firm, or corporation, by reason of producing or preparing to produce, either manganese, chrome, pyrites, or tungsten in compliance with the request or demand of the Department of the Interior, the War Industries Board, the War Trade Board, the Shipping Board, or the Emergency Fleet Corporation to supply the urgent needs of the Nation in the prosecution of the war...
Page 335 - States Government, through any of its duly authorized agencies, or any committee of Congress hereafter duly appointed, from the right of review of such settlement, nor the right to recover any money paid by the Government to any party under and by virtue of the provisions of this section...
Page 311 - That the rights of any person who, at the date of any order of withdrawal heretofore or hereafter made, is a bona fide occupant or claimant of oil or gas bearing lands, and who, at such date, is in diligent prosecution of work leading to discovery of oil or gas, shall not be affected or impaired by such order, so long as such occupant or claimant shall continue in diligent prosecution of said work...
Page 512 - ... and that said funds and appropriations shall continue to be available for said purpose until such time as the said Secretary shall have fully exercised the authority herein granted and performed and completed the duties hereby provided and Imposed: Provided, however.
Page 250 - And provided further, That no claim shall be allowed or paid by said Secretary unless it shall appear to the satisfaction of the said Secretary that the expenditures so made or obligations so incurred by the claimant were made in good faith for or upon property which contained either manganese, chrome, pyrites, or tungsten in sufficient quantities to be of commercial importance : And provided further.
Page 202 - I do not want to take up the time of the committee, but I want to say to you that...
Page 134 - November twelfth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, in a legitimate attempt to produce either manganese, chrome, pyrites, or tungsten for the needs of the Nation for the prosecution of the war, and that no profits of any kind shall be included in the allowance of any of said claims, and that no investment for merely speculative purposes shall be recognized in any manner by said Secretary...