Status of Shipyards: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session, Part 2

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Page 11033 - ... only such unmanufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been mined or produced in the United States, and only such manufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been manufactured in the United States substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case may be, in the United States, shall be acquired for public use.
Page 10782 - The regulatory commissions are required to make thousands of detailed decisions based on out-of-date standards. The management of the various modes of transportation is subjected to excessive, cumbersome, and timeconsuming regulatory supervision that shackles and distorts managerial initiative.
Page 11032 - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and unless the head of the department or independent establishment concerned shall determine it to be inconsistent with the public interest, or the cost to be unreasonable...
Page 11032 - ... other contract for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work in the United States or elsewhere shall be awarded to such contractor, subcontractors, material men, or suppliers with which such contractor is associated or affiliated, within a period of three years after such finding is made public.
Page 11032 - This section shall not apply with respect to articles, materials, or supplies for use outside the United 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 11044 - Fuel oil — a liquid or liquefiable petroleum product burned for lighting or for the generation of heat or power and derived directly or indirectly from crude oil, such as kerosene, range oil, distillate fuel oils, gas oil...
Page 11039 - States and the component is of a class or kind (1) determined by the Government to be not mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available commercial quantities and of a satisfactory quality, or (2) as to which the Administrator has determined that it would be inconsistent with the public interest to apply the restrictions of the Buy American Act. (e) "Canadian end product...
Page 11044 - In refining crude oil ; jlx) natural gas products — liquids (under atmospheric conditions). Including natural gasoline, which are recovered by a process of absorption, adsorption, compression, refrigeration, cycling, or a combination of such processes from mixtures of hydrocarbons that existed in a vaporous phase in a reservoir and which, when recovered and without processing In a refinery, otherwise fall within any of the definitions of products contained In (it) through (v), inclusive, of this...
Page 11045 - Provided further, That none of the funds herein provided shall be used for the construction of any naval vessel in foreign shipyards.
Page 11039 - Act with respect to certain supplies, which have been determined to be of a military character or involved in programs of mutual interest to the United States and Canada, where such supplies are mined, produced, or manufactured in Canada and either...

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