Second Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Bill for 1942: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session, on the Second Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Bill for 1942 (including Defense Aid--lend-lease Appropriations) ..., Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941 - United States |
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... contracts . Over 32 billion dollars of legal commitments have already been made . Contracts will soon be placed for the entire 7 - billion - dollar appro- priation . Contracts have been placed and work has started on nearly a billion ...
... contracts . Over 32 billion dollars of legal commitments have already been made . Contracts will soon be placed for the entire 7 - billion - dollar appro- priation . Contracts have been placed and work has started on nearly a billion ...
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... contracts for the procurement of defense articles , informa- tion , or services for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States , to the extent that such govern- ment agrees ...
... contracts for the procurement of defense articles , informa- tion , or services for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States , to the extent that such govern- ment agrees ...
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... contracts , contracts into production , and production into delivered articles at point of use . Permitting Great Britain to use lend - lease as a means of maintaining or expanding her foreign trade to the detriment of the United States ...
... contracts , contracts into production , and production into delivered articles at point of use . Permitting Great Britain to use lend - lease as a means of maintaining or expanding her foreign trade to the detriment of the United States ...
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... contract to specific tasks the earlier will we obtain deliveries . The task of transforming appropriations into contracts is at best long and troublesome . The quicker it is started the quicker it can be finished , but it cannot be ...
... contract to specific tasks the earlier will we obtain deliveries . The task of transforming appropriations into contracts is at best long and troublesome . The quicker it is started the quicker it can be finished , but it cannot be ...
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... contracts , and contracts into armaments . The aid from the first appropriation will now grow steadily larger and larger . But it must be supplemented in some instances and we must now begin to plan for the time when aid under the first ...
... contracts , and contracts into armaments . The aid from the first appropriation will now grow steadily larger and larger . But it must be supplemented in some instances and we must now begin to plan for the time when aid under the first ...
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ACHESON administrative Admiral BLANDY Admiral MOREELL Admiral ROBINSON Admiral SPEAR Admiral STARK agricultural aircraft allocated amount appropriation Army authority BELL billion dollars Britain British Government Bureau Captain RAMSEY CHAIRMAN Colonel AURAND committee commodities contracts cost Defense Aid Reports defense articles delivery Department DITTER Division of Defense ENGEL equipment estimate expenditures facilities figure funds furnish give going increase JOHNSON of West JONES KNUDSEN LAMBERTSON LAND lease-lend Lend-Lease Act lend-lease program loans LUDLOW MACK manufacture Maritime Commission material ment month Navy O'NEAL obligated Office operation ordnance percent plants President procurement production purchases question Reconstruction Finance Corporation record requested requirements requisitions SCRUGHAM Secretary STIMSON Secretary WICKARD Sept SHEPPARD ships SPALDING STARNES statement steel STETTINIUS supply TABER tanks things tion tons United Kingdom vessels War Department West Virginia WIGGLESWORTH wood pulp WOODRUM YOUNG
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Page 5 - Congress, or both, any defense article for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.
Page 5 - Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the President may, from time to time, when he deems it in the interest of national defense, authorize the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, or the head of any other department or agency of the Government...
Page 361 - The terms and conditions upon which any such foreign government receives any aid authorized under subsection (a) shall be those which the President deems satisfactory, and the benefit to the United States may be payment or repayment in kind or property, or any other direct or indirect benefit which the President deems satisfactory...
Page 5 - I of this Act shall be retained by, or transferred to, and for the use of, such department or agency of the United States...
Page 5 - States, or who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any appropriation contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both : Provided further, That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for,...
Page 5 - No part of any appropriation contained in this act shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence...
Page 331 - Government as he may designate, further to carry out the provisions of an Act to promote the defense of the United States...
Page 140 - We will be glad to have a statement from you as to the necessity for that appropriation.
Page 43 - The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the letter will be made a part of the record. (The letter is as follows:) [Federal Register, Tuesday, July 8, 1941, p.
Page 116 - UNDERWOOD. Here is a proposition I would like to know about very much if you can give me an absolute answer to it. Are you selling in those foreign countries at a loss or not? Mr. NICHOLSON. If we depended alone on that 20 per cent of business we would not continue. Mr. UNDERWOOD. I understand ; but that does not answer my question. I want to know whether the price you are selling at in those foreign countries is a loss? Mr. NICHOLSON. We think it is helpful