Department of Agriculture Appropriations for 1953: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session, Parts 1-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952 |
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acreage activities actual 1952 estimate Administration agencies Agricultural Research amount ANDERSEN animals areas authorized bales banks basis Budget estimate Bureau of Agricultural Chairman commodities Commodity Credit Corporation Congress cooperative corn costs cotton crop insurance dairy Department of Agriculture district economic employees esti estimate 1953 estimate expenditures experiment stations Farm Credit Farm Credit Administration farmers Federal fertilizer field fiscal year 1952 flood foot-and-mouth disease Forest Service Full-time equivalent funds guayule halogeton HORAN improvement income increase Industry investigations irrigation June 30 land legumes livestock loans Marketing Act ment Mexico national forests Office operations pay adjustment payments percent Personal services plant problems production credit projects Puerto Rico receipts reclamation regional reimbursements requested Rural Electrification Administration Salaries and expenses Secretary BRANNAN seed Soil Conservation Service surveys timber tion TRELOGAN United Virgin Islands watershed wheat WHITTEN WICKARD
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Page 177 - That there shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Labor, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 679 - Legislature may prescribe for the benefit of the public schools and public roads of the county or counties in which the forest reserve is situated...
Page 543 - Highways for work to be performed at the St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory of the University of Minnesota on the investigation of efficient and economical designs for culvert entrances and exits.
Page 592 - ... to remain available until expended : Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for salaries or other direct expenses of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare...
Page 369 - Islands into an insular possession of two districts: the municipality of St. Croix, and the municipality of St. Thomas and St. John. Congress has the authority and responsibility of legislating for the Virgin Islands. Federal legislation enacted for the States and Territories of the United States automatically applies to Alaska and Hawaii, but not to the Virgin Islands unless they are specifically included.
Page 860 - ... effective control over and accountability for all funds, property, and other assets for which the agency is responsible, including appropriate internal audit...
Page 684 - These deposits are made by non-Federal owners having land Intermingled with or adjacent to National Forests who wish these lands managed in accordance with good forest management practices. Their holdings are usually too small to warrant the employment of professional foresters to administer such tracts. The advantages to the Government Include the avoidance of possible high fire hazard...
Page 912 - Section 302 would repeal the basic statutory authority for subscriptions on behalf of the United States to the capital stock of the Federal land banks. Under the last paragraph of section 5 of the Federal Farm Loan Act, added in 1932, it was made the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury on behalf of the United States, upon request of any Federal land bank with the approval of the Farm Credit Administration, to subscribe from time to time to capital...
Page 35 - October 1, 1967, respectively, unless pursuant to section 312 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, the Secretary of Agriculture is petitioned prior to November 10...
Page 802 - A stock, preferred as to assets in the event of liquidation, may be issued only to the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration on behalf of the United States and represents the investment of the United States in such bank.