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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... contract to the lowest bidder deprives it of much of its spiritual significance , but to have it put up by the soldiers working out their own better proficiency in memory of all who served them at the front brings us to a kind of ...
... contract to the lowest bidder deprives it of much of its spiritual significance , but to have it put up by the soldiers working out their own better proficiency in memory of all who served them at the front brings us to a kind of ...
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... contract with any agency which may be organized for the purpose of doing it . If an agency does not exist and if we can not make a contract with a private agency to do the work , we will undertake to establish an institution ourselves ...
... contract with any agency which may be organized for the purpose of doing it . If an agency does not exist and if we can not make a contract with a private agency to do the work , we will undertake to establish an institution ourselves ...
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... contract to pay a reasonable amount for the training of these men , and the private concern will raise enough funds to make up the difference between the cost of training the men and what the Government could reasonably pay for training ...
... contract to pay a reasonable amount for the training of these men , and the private concern will raise enough funds to make up the difference between the cost of training the men and what the Government could reasonably pay for training ...
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... contract with that Soldiers ' Insritute , the same as we would make a contract with Columbia University , for the training of certain men in certain lines of work and if they did not train the men in those lines of work for , the ...
... contract with that Soldiers ' Insritute , the same as we would make a contract with Columbia University , for the training of certain men in certain lines of work and if they did not train the men in those lines of work for , the ...
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... contracts , etc. , right into the Veterans ' Bureau . So , so far as the Sweet bill is concerned , I think it does not ... contract with these people to give them the training . The CHAIRMAN . What is you objection to taking the property ...
... contracts , etc. , right into the Veterans ' Bureau . So , so far as the Sweet bill is concerned , I think it does not ... contract with these people to give them the training . The CHAIRMAN . What is you objection to taking the property ...
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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.