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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... cost to the Government ? Mr. BUSH - BROWN . The Government is maintaining a good bit of educational functions already , regardless of cost , is it not ? Mr. MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan . Yes . The Government has appro- priated a good many ...
... cost to the Government ? Mr. BUSH - BROWN . The Government is maintaining a good bit of educational functions already , regardless of cost , is it not ? Mr. MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan . Yes . The Government has appro- priated a good many ...
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... cost you , approximately , if you have to go into the open market and purchase this material ? Mr. LAMKIN . Three or four times as much . I have on my desk now tentative requisitions for $ 2,300,000 worth of property that is going to be ...
... cost you , approximately , if you have to go into the open market and purchase this material ? Mr. LAMKIN . Three or four times as much . I have on my desk now tentative requisitions for $ 2,300,000 worth of property that is going to be ...
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... cost of maintenance is not way out of proportion . Mr. JONES . I notice the Secretary of War , the Secretary of the Navy , and the Secretary of Agriculture , have recommended the sale of this property . Mr. LAMKIN . We can not buy it ...
... cost of maintenance is not way out of proportion . Mr. JONES . I notice the Secretary of War , the Secretary of the Navy , and the Secretary of Agriculture , have recommended the sale of this property . Mr. LAMKIN . We can not buy it ...
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... cost the Government too much money to take it over and maintain it as a school . We have tried to establish these schools , and we find that a less unit than 300 men can not be handled profitably ; that is , can not be handled with a ...
... cost the Government too much money to take it over and maintain it as a school . We have tried to establish these schools , and we find that a less unit than 300 men can not be handled profitably ; that is , can not be handled with a ...
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... costs the David Rankin School for Com- mercial Trades $ 30 per month per man to train those boys . They are getting the ... cost ? Mr. BUSH - BROWN . About $ 60 an acre . Mr. JACOWAY . Are you going into the sawmill business ? Mr. BUSH ...
... costs the David Rankin School for Com- mercial Trades $ 30 per month per man to train those boys . They are getting the ... cost ? Mr. BUSH - BROWN . About $ 60 an acre . Mr. JACOWAY . Are you going into the sawmill business ? Mr. BUSH ...
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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.