First Supplemental Surplus Appropriation Recission Bill, 1946: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, on the First Supplemental Surplus Appropriation Recision Bill, 1946, Volume 26, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1945 - Reconstruction (1939-1951) |
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active Admiral ALLEN Admiral CARTER Admiral CASSADY Admiral COCHRANE Admiral DENFELD Admiral HORNE Admiral HUSSEY Admiral MCINTIRE Admiral MITSCHER Admiral MOREELL Admiral SALLADA aircraft carriers ammunition amount appropriation auxiliary aviation berthing Budget Bureau Calif canceled CANNON Captain FISHER Captain HILLENKOETTER Chairman civilian Commander FOCKE committee construction contract authority cost course cruisers demobilization depot destroyers DIRKSEN discharge disposed enlisted equipment estimate facilities figure fiscal year 1946 fleet funds going HENSEL hospital included increase JOHNSON July 31 June 30 landing craft landing ships lend-lease LUDLOW maintenance Marine Corps material MITSCHER months MORRISON Naval Air Navy Yard NROTC O'NEAL obligations officers operation ordnance Pacific peacetime percent planes postwar Navy present propose record reduction repair rescission reserve saving Secretary FORRESTAL separation centers SHEPPARD shore establishments statement stations submarine SULLIVAN supply surplus surrender of Japan TABER tion transportation types VANDEGRIFT vessels WIGGLESWORTH
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Page 731 - President may detail capable officers and noncommissioned officers of the Regular Army and National Guard to duty at such ranges as instructors for the purpose of training the citizenry in the use of the military arm. Where rifle ranges shall have been so established and instructors assigned to duty thereat, the Secretary of War shall be authorized to provide for the issue of a reasonable number of standard military rifles and such quantities of ammunition as may be available for use in conducting...
Page 575 - President believes that it is vital to the welfare of our people that this Nation maintain developmental work and the nucleus of a producing aircraft industry capable of rapid expansion to keep the peace and meet any emergency.
Page 17 - ... to support the national policy as we understand it. We are unable to make any other representation until we have a more definite national policy as we understand it. We are unable to make any other representation until we have a more definite national policy than we have now. Even in order to do this we have had to make certain assumptions about the tasks which the Navy will be called upon to discharge in conjunction with the Army. They are three; that is, there are three assumptions. The first...
Page 11 - Mr. KEEFE. No questions. HEALTH AND SANITATION ACTIVITIES, WAR AND DEFENSE AREAS Mr. HARE. The next item is page 232 and page 233, both of which will be inserted in the record at this place. (Pp. 2.32 and 233 are as follows:) Health and sanitation activities, war and defense areas, Public Health Service (national defense...
Page 575 - I have instructed the Director of the Bureau of the Budget and the Director of the Office of Science and Technology to explore the adequacy of the present organization of pollution control and research activities.
Page 456 - ... the Coast Guard, which shall constitute a part of the military forces of the United States and which shall operate under the Treasury Department in time of peace and operate as a part of the Navy, subject to the orders of the Secretary of the Navy, in time of war or when the President shall so direct.
Page 422 - ... far-reaching and wholesome influence whenever in like circumstances it may become necessary for our naval commanders to interfere on behalf of our people in foreign ports. The war now in progress between China and Japan has rendered it necessary or expedient to dispatch eight vessels to those waters. Both the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of the Treasury recommend the transfer of the work of the Coast Survey proper to the Navy Department. I heartily concur in this recommendation. Excluding...
Page 14 - ... United States remain militarily strong. Forrestal highlighted the Navy as a major contributor to that strength and stated: All this sounds as if I did not have confidence in the world organization for peace. I have. But that confidence can only be justified if, while these organizations are in the process of transfer from paper to living reality, all the world knows that the United States will not tolerate the disorder and the destruction of war being let loose again upon the world.22 Postwar...
Page 838 - ... Office on hand on November 15, 1945, together with its remaining personnel and any balances of appropriations then unexpended, shall be transferred to the Secretary of the Treasury, and so much thereof as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine to be necessary for such purpose shall be utilized by the Secretary in winding up the affairs of the Office. 1 Noted In Title 32, Chapter XVI.
Page 11 - The outstanding lesson of the past quarter century," he observed, "is that the means to wage war must be in the hands of those who hate war.