Soldiers' Institute--Occupation of Mount Weather: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5901. June 10, 1921 |
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... authority is given . The War Department is holding it rather than putting it on the market . Mr. ASWELL . In your opinion , has the President the authority to authorize it ? Mr. LAMKIN . I do not know . I am officially advised that the ...
... authority is given . The War Department is holding it rather than putting it on the market . Mr. ASWELL . In your opinion , has the President the authority to authorize it ? Mr. LAMKIN . I do not know . I am officially advised that the ...
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... authority can be given to use the property of the Government it would result in a saving of $ 2,000,000 . Mr. LAMKIN . I should say so . The CHAIRMAN . What property ? Mr. LAMKIN . Machine tools , equipment , etc. More than a year and a ...
... authority can be given to use the property of the Government it would result in a saving of $ 2,000,000 . Mr. LAMKIN . I should say so . The CHAIRMAN . What property ? Mr. LAMKIN . Machine tools , equipment , etc. More than a year and a ...
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... authority to turn it over to us . I am frank to say I have not talked to Secre- tary Weeks , but it has been taken up by the Cabinet members on our board with the Secretary of War . Mr. KINCHELOE . The point I am making is that perhaps ...
... authority to turn it over to us . I am frank to say I have not talked to Secre- tary Weeks , but it has been taken up by the Cabinet members on our board with the Secretary of War . Mr. KINCHELOE . The point I am making is that perhaps ...
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... authority for build- ing buildings , and that is what you would have to do . The CHAIRMAN . You would have a good many buildings there to start with and they are excellent buildings . Mr. LAMKIN . We have canvassed that very carefully ...
... authority for build- ing buildings , and that is what you would have to do . The CHAIRMAN . You would have a good many buildings there to start with and they are excellent buildings . Mr. LAMKIN . We have canvassed that very carefully ...
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... authority to build and you would have to give us that authority . Mr. BUSH - BROWN . We propose to buy adjacent property and put up buildings there , and on the bottoms there is fine farm land of about 700 acres , part of which is in ...
... authority to build and you would have to give us that authority . Mr. BUSH - BROWN . We propose to buy adjacent property and put up buildings there , and on the bottoms there is fine farm land of about 700 acres , part of which is in ...
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16 rooms asked ASWELL authority Blue Ridge Mountains Bluemont Board for Vocational board of trustees boys BUCKLEW BUSH-BROWN CHAIRMAN Committee on Agriculture contract cooperation Cottage for dwelling Department of Agriculture disabled soldiers District of Columbia eighty-four and eighty-one eighty-one one-hundredths acres erected expense EYCK Federal Board feet frame building funds gentlemen GILBERT N give Government property Harpers Ferry HAUGEN hospital House of Representatives inaccessible institute JACOWAY JONES KINCHELOE kite shelter known as Mount LAMKIN land Loudoun and Clarke maintain MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan miles Mount Weather observatory operate organization Public Health Service PURNELL purpose recommended rehabilitated responsibility road Secretary of Agriculture Secretary of War Shenandoah Valley station stone building submit TEN EYCK thing TINCHER tion transfer Treasury tubercular two-story frame Valley Virginia Vocational Board Vocational Education War Department Washington Weather Bureau
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Page 19 - ... acknowledged the same to be their act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.
Page 20 - In the absence of the President his duties shall be performed by the senior Vice-President present.
Page 18 - States, and a majority citizens and residents of the District of Columbia, desiring to associate ourselves as a corporation pursuant to the provisions of Title 29 of Chapter 6 of the District of Columbia Code (1940) do hereby certify as follows: First.
Page 29 - The grounds have an area of 84.81 acres, are roughly square in outline, lying on both sides of the ridge, the top of which is 1,725 feet above sea level and about 1,200 feet above the valleys on either side. It overlooks to the west the entire Shenandoah Valley from Strasburg to Harpers Ferry and to the east all that portion of PiedmontVirginia Valley between the Blue Ridge and the Bull Run Mountains.
Page 43 - I request that the bill be inserted at this point in the record. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, it will be so ordered.
Page 32 - In connection with investigations in terrestrial magnetism; cellar under each ; the walls are about 4 feet thick, of double construction, packed with sawdust to secure constant temperature conditions within ; cost 15, 904. 55 Stables : 1 two-story frame and stone stable and 1 two-story frame stable ; cost 2, 800.