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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... commission to report on this very property at Mount Weather , to see if it could be used under any Government functions for the rehabilitation of the soldiers as a Government function , and their report has been published here in this ...
... commission to report on this very property at Mount Weather , to see if it could be used under any Government functions for the rehabilitation of the soldiers as a Government function , and their report has been published here in this ...
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... Commission , Washington , D. C .; secretary , Fred- erick P. H. Siddons , American Security & Trust Co. , Washington , D. C .; treasurer , Jerome F. Barnard , American Security & Trust Co. , Washington , D. C .; Miss Byrd Mock ...
... Commission , Washington , D. C .; secretary , Fred- erick P. H. Siddons , American Security & Trust Co. , Washington , D. C .; treasurer , Jerome F. Barnard , American Security & Trust Co. , Washington , D. C .; Miss Byrd Mock ...
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... commission composed of the Secretaries of Agriculture , Treasury , War , and Navy , made to the Speaker of the House of Representatives , December 28 , 1920 . This land was bought and the buildings erected by the United States ...
... commission composed of the Secretaries of Agriculture , Treasury , War , and Navy , made to the Speaker of the House of Representatives , December 28 , 1920 . This land was bought and the buildings erected by the United States ...
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... commission either that the station is not needed by them or that it can not be advantageously utilized in connection with their activi- ties ; and , after thorough consideration , it does not seem feasible or desirable to make use of ...
... commission either that the station is not needed by them or that it can not be advantageously utilized in connection with their activi- ties ; and , after thorough consideration , it does not seem feasible or desirable to make use of ...
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... commission composed of the several Secretaries , and no Government bureau or department can use the plant . The CHAIRMAN . What effort have you made to sell it ? Mr. CLARK . We have taken no steps toward its sale without authority and ...
... commission composed of the several Secretaries , and no Government bureau or department can use the plant . The CHAIRMAN . What effort have you made to sell it ? Mr. CLARK . We have taken no steps toward its sale without authority and ...
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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.