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... Valley and will provide extensive flood - con- trol benefits to the New and Kanawha River Valleys , which contain extensive industrial developments around Charleston , W. Va . These developments have an estimated value of $ 750,000,000 ...
... Valley and will provide extensive flood - con- trol benefits to the New and Kanawha River Valleys , which contain extensive industrial developments around Charleston , W. Va . These developments have an estimated value of $ 750,000,000 ...
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... valley ? General WHEELER . Yes , sir ; it is a very important project . It will have a capacity of about 322,000 acre - feet and will control the run - off from a tributary area of over 400 square miles . It is an integral part of the ...
... valley ? General WHEELER . Yes , sir ; it is a very important project . It will have a capacity of about 322,000 acre - feet and will control the run - off from a tributary area of over 400 square miles . It is an integral part of the ...
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... Valley , and put hundreds of people homeless , de- stroyed several million dollars ' worth of property , will continue to happen ? General WHEELER . Yes , sir ; they will . I have an estimate of the flood losses in some of those ...
... Valley , and put hundreds of people homeless , de- stroyed several million dollars ' worth of property , will continue to happen ? General WHEELER . Yes , sir ; they will . I have an estimate of the flood losses in some of those ...
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... VALLEY BASIN IN OREGON AMOUNT NEEDED FOR BANK PROTECTION Senator CORDON . General Wheeler , in connection with the complete Willamette Valley Basin program , did you make any estimate in connection with work necessary for bank ...
... VALLEY BASIN IN OREGON AMOUNT NEEDED FOR BANK PROTECTION Senator CORDON . General Wheeler , in connection with the complete Willamette Valley Basin program , did you make any estimate in connection with work necessary for bank ...
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... Valley Center , Kans . Fort Supply Reser- ervoir , Okla . Cherokee , Okla . Great Salt Plains , Okla . Markham Ferry Res- ervoir , Okla . Jenks , Okla Dirty Creek Bottom , Okla . Tucker Lake Bottom , Okla . 331 , 500 1,500,000 33,000 ...
... Valley Center , Kans . Fort Supply Reser- ervoir , Okla . Cherokee , Okla . Great Salt Plains , Okla . Markham Ferry Res- ervoir , Okla . Jenks , Okla Dirty Creek Bottom , Okla . Tucker Lake Bottom , Okla . 331 , 500 1,500,000 33,000 ...
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Page 530 - Interior, who shall transmit and dispose of such power and energy in such manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles, the rate schedules to become effective upon confirmation and approval by the Federal Power Commission.
Page 479 - California, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the plans contained in House Document Numbered 630, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable...
Page 96 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provision of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved January 21, 1927 (44 Stat.
Page 479 - Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: ***** Sec.
Page 533 - States plus 25 per centum; (6) this entire section shall apply only to persons employed in skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory positions on the Canal Zone directly or indirectly by any branch of the United States Government or by any corporation or company whose stock is owned wholly or in part by the United States Government...
Page 519 - Engineers has given you sufficient statistical data on the matter, and if there are any questions, I will be glad to answer them, sir.
Page 278 - Without objection, it will be placed in the record. (The letter referred to is as follows:) DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE, San Arngdo, Tex., February 21, 194S.
Page 482 - The projects for flood protection on the Mississippi River at St. Paul and South St. Paul, Minnesota, are hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 223, 85th Congress, at an estimated cost of $5,705,500.
Page 530 - Electric power and energy generated at reservoir projects under the control of the War Department and in the opinion of the Secretary of War not required in the operation of such projects shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Interior, who shall transmit and dispose of such power and energy in such manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest...
Page 60 - December 29, 1943, between the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior, the Federal Power Commission, the Department of Agriculture, and the Corps of Engineers...