War Department Appropriation Bill, 1926, Hearings ... 68th Congress, 2d Session |
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... harbors . 2 $ 40,000,000 included for rivers and harbors . Figures do not include Army deposit fund , United States Soldiers ' Home , and preservation of birthplace of Lincoln . It will be noticed from what I have said that this ...
... harbors . 2 $ 40,000,000 included for rivers and harbors . Figures do not include Army deposit fund , United States Soldiers ' Home , and preservation of birthplace of Lincoln . It will be noticed from what I have said that this ...
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... harbor funds your figures show that in 1924 there was carried forward $ 24,000,000 . In 1925 you carried forward $ 32,993,000 . General WALKER . Yes , sir . STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK FOR FISCAL YEARS 1912 TO ...
... harbor funds your figures show that in 1924 there was carried forward $ 24,000,000 . In 1925 you carried forward $ 32,993,000 . General WALKER . Yes , sir . STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK FOR FISCAL YEARS 1912 TO ...
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... harbor works_ Examinations , surveys , and contingencies of rivers and harbors___ Flood control , Mississippi River _.__ . Maintenance of channel , South Pass , Mississippi River__ Examination and survey of South Pass , Mississippi ...
... harbor works_ Examinations , surveys , and contingencies of rivers and harbors___ Flood control , Mississippi River _.__ . Maintenance of channel , South Pass , Mississippi River__ Examination and survey of South Pass , Mississippi ...
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... harbor vessel operations and very much restricted use of motor vehicles . HORSES FOR CAVALRY , ARTILLERY , ENGINEERS , ETC. The estimate under this title contemplates the purchase of 2,000 horses to replace casualties and provide for ...
... harbor vessel operations and very much restricted use of motor vehicles . HORSES FOR CAVALRY , ARTILLERY , ENGINEERS , ETC. The estimate under this title contemplates the purchase of 2,000 horses to replace casualties and provide for ...
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... harbor boats and the 142 Coast Artillery vessels , and the shore establishment of the various ports of embarkation . The amount is $ 32,648 less than the appropria- tion for 1925 and $ 310,553 more than the expenditure for 1924 ...
... harbor boats and the 142 Coast Artillery vessels , and the shore establishment of the various ports of embarkation . The amount is $ 32,648 less than the appropria- tion for 1925 and $ 310,553 more than the expenditure for 1924 ...
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Air Service ammunition amount ANTHONY asking BARBOUR barracks Budget buildings Bureau cable Captain PUGH Cavalry cent Chemical Warfare civilian Colonel BEEBE Colonel CASEY Colonel DICKINSON Colonel HAMMOND Colonel STEESE Colonel TIMBERLAKE Colonel WALKER committee construction contract Corps Area cost defense DELAFIELD Department depots employees Engineers enlisted equipment estimate expenditures expenses Field Artillery figures fiscal year 1926 Fort Leavenworth funds going Government grade guns Harbor helium horses hospital howitzer increase JOHNSON June 30 Lieutenant Colonel maintenance Major CRAWFORD Major DALY Major HARBOLD Major MATHER Major WILBY manufacture material ment motor National Guard necessary NOLAN Ohio River operation ordnance Organized Reserves Panama Canal PATRICK planes plant propose purchase Quartermaster reduction Regular Army repair reserve officers rifle River road salaries SALTZMAN schools Secretary of War Secretary WEEKS SLADEN statement was submitted supplies TAYLOR tion transportation troops units War Department
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Page 339 - Permanent barracks or quarters and buildings and structures of a permanent nature shall not be constructed unless detailed estimates shall have been previously submitted to Congress, and approved by a special appropriation for the same, except when constructed by the troops; and no such structures, the cost of which shall exceed $20,000, shall be erected unless by special authority of Congress.
Page 598 - War and has agreed in writing to pursue the course in camp training prescribed by the Secretary of War, he may be furnished at the expense of the United States...
Page 428 - ... and tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department, and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, $15,000.
Page 146 - for payment of claims for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army...
Page 382 - For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for which there may be no special appropriation available...
Page 187 - Tomatoes, canned, in lieu of an equal quantity of potatoes, but not exceeding 20 per 20 ounces. . . . \ cent of total issue. Other fresh vegetables (not canned) when they can be obtained in the vicinity or transported in a wholesome condition from a distance, in lieu of an equal quantity of potatoes, but not exceeding 30 per • cent of total issue.
Page 117 - Representatives, shall make an investigation and report recommendations to their respective Houses not later than the first Monday in January. 1922, relative to the readjustment of the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the several services herein mentioned.
Page 187 - Canned meat, when impracticable to furnish fresh meat. Hash, corned beef, when impracticable to furnish fresh meat. Fish, dried Fish, pickled F ish, canned Turkey, dressed, drawn, on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas, when practicable. Soft bread „ Hard bread, to be ordered Issued only when the interests of the Government so require.
Page 651 - Government, and issue to clubs organized, for practice with rifled arms, under the direction of the National Board for the Promotion oí Rifle Practice, of arms, ammunition, targets and other supplies and appliances necessary for target practice...
Page 2 - GEORGE HOLDEN TINKHAM, Massachusetts. BURTON L. FRENCH, Idaho. MILTON W. SHREVE, Pennsylvania. LJ DICKINSON, Iowa. FRANK MURPHY, Ohio. JOHN W. .SUMMERS, Washington. HENRY E. HARBOUR, California. ERNEST R. ACKERMAN, New Jersey. GUY U. HARDY, Colorado.