Capability of U.S. Defense Industrial Base: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, and the Panel on Defense Industrial Base of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, September 17, 18, 25, October 21, 22, 24, November 12,13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, and December 3, 1980

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Page 90 - Interest and other financial costs. Interest on borrowings (however represented), bond discounts, costs of financing and refinancing operations, legal and professional fees paid in connection with the preparation of prospectuses, costs of preparation and issuance of stock rights, and...
Page 1018 - Under present circumstances, this task requires diversion of certain materials and facilities from civilian use to military and related purposes.
Page 1019 - The President is hereby authorized (1) to require that performance under contracts or orders (other than contracts of employment) which he deems necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense shall take priority over performance under any other contract or order, and, for the purpose of assuring such priority, to require acceptance and performance of such contracts or orders in preference to other contracts or orders by any person he finds to be capable of their performance, and (2) to...
Page 603 - ... (e) When in his judgment it will aid the national defense, the President is authorized to install additional equipment, facilities, processes or improvements to plants, factories, and other industrial facilities owned by the United States Government, and to install government-owned equipment in plants, factories, and other industrial facilities owned by private persons.
Page 1024 - The Secretary of Labor shall utilize the functions vested in him so as to meet most effectively the labor needs of defense industry and essential civilian employment...
Page 48 - The committee will stand in recess until 2 o'clock this afternoon. [Whereupon, at 12 :45 pm, the committee recessed, to reconvene at 2 pm, the same day.] AFTERNOON SESSION The CHAIRMAN.
Page 1027 - Act, are, subject to section 202 of the Budget and Accounting Procedures Act of 1950 (31 USC 581c), correspondingly transferred for appropriate allocation.
Page 1025 - domestic transportation, storage, and port facilities" shall include locomotives, cars, motor vehicles, watercraft used on inland waterways, in harbors, and on the Great Lakes, and other vehicles, vessels, and all instrumentalities of shipment or carriage, irrespective of ownership, and all services in or in connection with the carriage of persons or property in intrastate, interstate, or foreign commerce within the United States...
Page 787 - to promote the economy, efficiency and effectiveness" of procurement by the executive branch of the Federal Government.
Page 1018 - ... settlement of labor disputes, strengthen controls over credit, and by these measures facilitate the production of goods and services necessary for the national security, and for other purposes Be it enacted 'by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act, divided into titles, may be cited as "the Defense Production Act of 1950.

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