Additional Appropriations Incident to the National Defense, Fiscal Years 1942 and 1943: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, Second Session on H. J. Res. 258, Additional Appropriations Incident to the National Defense, Fiscal Years 1942 and 1943 |
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... matter , because this is a grave responsibility . This is the largest estimate for war equipment ever submitted to any committee or any Congress in the history of the world , and it involves the greatest dislocation , readjustment , and ...
... matter , because this is a grave responsibility . This is the largest estimate for war equipment ever submitted to any committee or any Congress in the history of the world , and it involves the greatest dislocation , readjustment , and ...
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... matter of letting contracts ? Is there complete understanding between those different branches ? General ECHOLS . I do not understand the allegation of the committee that there has been a lack of understanding with regard to the placing ...
... matter of letting contracts ? Is there complete understanding between those different branches ? General ECHOLS . I do not understand the allegation of the committee that there has been a lack of understanding with regard to the placing ...
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... matter how good their plane was they could not get an order because of personalities involved and because it might look as if the Army was admitting a mistake in its original failure to give proper consideration to Zephyr's bid . Do you ...
... matter how good their plane was they could not get an order because of personalities involved and because it might look as if the Army was admitting a mistake in its original failure to give proper consideration to Zephyr's bid . Do you ...
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... matter is concerned , I am not familiar with the discussion or argument with General Brett , or the discussion he had with the representatives of the Zephyr Co. I feel positive that General Brett did not say that they had to discharge ...
... matter is concerned , I am not familiar with the discussion or argument with General Brett , or the discussion he had with the representatives of the Zephyr Co. I feel positive that General Brett did not say that they had to discharge ...
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... matter referred to follows :) Since 1939 we have been able to accelerate our research and development work to an impressive degree . The steadily increasing facilities of the National Ad- visory Committee for Aeronautics and of Wright ...
... matter referred to follows :) Since 1939 we have been able to accelerate our research and development work to an impressive degree . The steadily increasing facilities of the National Ad- visory Committee for Aeronautics and of Wright ...
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additional Administration Admiral LAND Admiral TOWERS agencies Air Corps airplanes alien enemies ALTMEYER amount Army ARNOLD Board BOURNE Budget buildings Bureau Captain GORMAN CHAIRMAN civilian Colonel BURNELL Colonel HELMICK Colonel KUTZ committee construction contract course Defense Plant Corporation DITTER ECHOLS employees ENGEL engineering equipment estimate expenses facilities Federal field fiscal year 1942 forest funds give going Government GRANGER Guard guayule included increase industry JOHNSON of West June 30 KNUDSEN labor lease-lend lend-lease LOVERIDGE LUDLOW MACDONALD MARCH 16 Maritime Commission materials ment months national defense O'NEAL operation ordnance percent personnel planes plants present procurement production projects purchase RABAUT record requested REYNOLDS rubber SCHOFIELD Secretary WICKARD ships SNYDER SOMERVELL STARNES statement STETTINIUS STUDEBAKER supplies TABER TERRY thing tion transportation Truman committee War Department War Production Board West Virginia WIGGLESWORTH WOODRUM
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Page 507 - 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 214 - ... by the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy, as the case may be...
Page 256 - ... 15 per centum of the fair market value of the rented premises at date of the lease under which the premises are to be occupied by the Government nor for alterations, improvements, and repairs of the rented premises in excess of 25 per centum of the amount of the rent for the first year of the rental term...
Page 64 - Provided, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the procurement of any article of food, clothing, cotton or wool (whether in the form of fiber or yarn or contained in fabrics, materials, or manufactured articles) not grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States...
Page 64 - Provided, That none of the money appropriated in this Act shall be used for the purchase of oleomargarine or butter substitutes for other than cooking purposes, except to supply an expressed preference therefor or for use where climatic or other conditions render the use of butter impracticable.
Page 64 - ... grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States or its possessions cannot be procured as and when needed at United States market prices...
Page 64 - ... and except procurements by vessels in foreign waters and by establishments located outside the continental United States, except the Territories of Hawaii and Alaska, for the personnel attached thereto.
Page 64 - States representatives and other personnel in going to and returning from their post of duty; allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930...
Page 420 - ... with the assignment, allocation, transfer, and survey of building space ; traveling expenses and carfare ; leather and rubber articles and gas masks for the protection of public property and employees ; furnishings and equipment; arms and ammunition for the guard force; not exceeding...
Page 60 - Yes, sir. The CHAIRMAN. Are there any further questions ? If not, we thank .you, Colonel Heiss.