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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... plant its orderly development should be along the lines of suburban growth and thus ultimately because part of the city as may be needed in the extension of its streets and parks . This is very important as herein will come increased ...
... plant its orderly development should be along the lines of suburban growth and thus ultimately because part of the city as may be needed in the extension of its streets and parks . This is very important as herein will come increased ...
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... plant out of it ? It is an ideal spot . Mr. LAMKIN . There is no question about its being an ideal spot . Mr. ASWELL . Could you acquire the additional property ? Mr. LAMKIN . I am told the additional property is there , but as far as I ...
... plant out of it ? It is an ideal spot . Mr. LAMKIN . There is no question about its being an ideal spot . Mr. ASWELL . Could you acquire the additional property ? Mr. LAMKIN . I am told the additional property is there , but as far as I ...
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... plant : Erected 1909 ; one - story stone building ; boilers and electrical equipment sufficient for supplying heat , light , and power for the entire plant . " Absolute " and " variation " buildings ( for terrestrial - magnetic work ) ...
... plant : Erected 1909 ; one - story stone building ; boilers and electrical equipment sufficient for supplying heat , light , and power for the entire plant . " Absolute " and " variation " buildings ( for terrestrial - magnetic work ) ...
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... plant , and other smaller structures . We are now caring for them with custodians and maintaining and protecting them as best we can with the limited funds at our disposal . This is a map just drafted showing the contour lines and the ...
... plant , and other smaller structures . We are now caring for them with custodians and maintaining and protecting them as best we can with the limited funds at our disposal . This is a map just drafted showing the contour lines and the ...
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... plant , and small structures which could not be used to house patients or soldiers . Mount Weather was found to be not best suited for aerial investi- gations , because its location is not favorably related to the ordinary tracks of ...
... plant , and small structures which could not be used to house patients or soldiers . Mount Weather was found to be not best suited for aerial investi- gations , because its location is not favorably related to the ordinary tracks of ...
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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.