Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1959U.S. Government Printing Office, 1958 - 895 pages |
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... important fields is assigned by law to the Bureau of the Census . The estimate for the Bureau of the Census proposes to improve existing current measures of our economy as regards consumer credit outstanding ; inventories held by ...
... important fields is assigned by law to the Bureau of the Census . The estimate for the Bureau of the Census proposes to improve existing current measures of our economy as regards consumer credit outstanding ; inventories held by ...
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... important role in our civilian economy and our systems of transportation , and manned aircraft will remain a vital ingredient of United States airpower . Changes and expansions that have taken place have outstripped the capacity of the ...
... important role in our civilian economy and our systems of transportation , and manned aircraft will remain a vital ingredient of United States airpower . Changes and expansions that have taken place have outstripped the capacity of the ...
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... important that this progress continue in order that the American patent system may make its appropriate contribution to a healthy economy and an adequate defense effort . In this connection I am pleased to report that inventive activity ...
... important that this progress continue in order that the American patent system may make its appropriate contribution to a healthy economy and an adequate defense effort . In this connection I am pleased to report that inventive activity ...
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... important but initial step in strengthening the essential technical activities of the Bureau . It will help the Bureau to establish effective basic operations in meeting its ever - broadening scientific responsibilities . The Bureau's ...
... important but initial step in strengthening the essential technical activities of the Bureau . It will help the Bureau to establish effective basic operations in meeting its ever - broadening scientific responsibilities . The Bureau's ...
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... developments , I do not think there is a more important operation in the Government than the Bureau of Standards and its work in the field of continually developing more precise measurements . So my own view would be to give them what 16.
... developments , I do not think there is a more important operation in the Government than the Bureau of Standards and its work in the field of continually developing more precise measurements . So my own view would be to give them what 16.
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Page 184 - States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives...
Page 823 - ... whenever it appears to the Secretary that such insurance adequate for the needs of the waterborne commerce of the United States cannot be obtained on reasonable terms and conditions from companies authorized to do an insurance business in a State of the United States.
Page 777 - Law 85-133, is an action agency which is empowered by law to "develop, modify, test and evaluate systems, procedures, facilities, and devices, as well as define the performance characteristics thereof, to meet the needs for safe and efficient navigation and traffic control...
Page 809 - VI of this Act, and all authority conferred thereunder shall terminate at the close of June 30, 1953. Title IV and V of this Act, and all authority conferred thereunder, shall terminate at the close of April 30, 1953.
Page 777 - Administrator shall develop, modify, test, and evaluate systems, procedures, facilities, and devices, as well as define the performance characteristics thereof, to meet the needs for safe and efficient navigation and traffic control of all civil and military aviation except...
Page 752 - ... characteristics thereof, to meet the needs for safe and efficient navigation and traffic control of all civil and military aviation except for those needs of military agencies which are peculiar to air warfare and primarily of military concern, and select such systems, procedures, facilities, and devices as will best serve such needs and will promote maximum coordination of air traffic control and air defense systems.
Page 344 - ... purchase or condemnation the right to advertise or regulate advertising in an area adjacent to the right-of-way of a project on the Interstate System...
Page 268 - Indeed, it might very well be the one scource of strength of the free world which would pluck victory from chaos. With land transport damaged beyond easy repair, only merchant ships, capable of plying the great highway of the seas, would be...
Page 35 - Commerce to establish and maintain "a clearinghouse for the collection and dissemination of scientific, technical and engineering information." The declared purpose of the Act was "to make the results of technological research and development more readily available to industry and business, and to the general public.
Page 567 - States business groups and standards organizations for the development of international standards of practice; and maintenance of a clearinghouse for the collection and dissemination of scientific, technical, and engineering information.