Flood Control Act of 1949. Hearings ... on H.R. 5472

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Sook E R Secretary chamber of commerce Lawrence Kans statement 247
111
Meisner James F Marion County Kans letters 460465
112
H R 3791
113
Abels Edwin F president Kaw River Valley Association statement 239 251
115
Lafayette Pa Board of Supervisors letter
122
Myers Hon Francis J United States Senator statements 110116
133
Ohio River Basin project 168 191
168
White Hon Compton I Member of Congress statement
172
Allen Hon A Leonard Member of Congress statement_ 999
186
Ohio Valley Conservation and Flood Control Congress statement
191
Breidenthal W J Flood Protection Planning Commission for Greater
227
Missouri River Flood Protective Association__ 1117
235
Missouri River PickSloan plan list of resolutions and petitions endorsing
257
H R 4010
260
South Platte River and tributaries Colorado Wyoming and Nebraska
261
Spokane Wash chamber of commerce statement 641
274
Brey Claude Ozawkie Kans statement
278
Stewart Charles W Oskaloosa Kans letter____
285
Brown Hon Edgar A Clark Hill authority of South Carolina statement_ 71
303
Redmond John Burlington Kans statement___ 370
321
Anacostia River D C and Md project 85
340
Appalachian Power Co adequacy of power supply in territory served by 184
351
Carlson Frank Governor Kansas letter to General Wheeler 272
391
Jackson Hon Henry M Member of Congress statement__ 686
398
Stigler Hon William G Member of Congress statement_ 509
400
ArkansasWhite and Red River Basins United States Study Commission__ 971
407
Becker E M Durham Kans Chamber of Commerce letter_
462
Carroll Hon John A Member of Congress Colorado statement 264
464
Thomas William M district judge Miami Okla Chamber of Commerce
471
Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board statement
501
Jacobson N H telegram__ 671
508
Old River closure lower Mississippi River project 765
511
Johnson E R Roanoke Va letter_ 186
688
Life Paul Ozawkie Kans letter__ 305
691
Rio Hondo Channel Calif project
693
Rising E W Pacific Northwest Development Association statement_ 657
699
Lost River Ind project 169
712
Riverside County Calif floodcontrol district board of supervisors state
723
Bonoher H P Bradford Pa letter_ 124
729
Magee Hon Clare Member of Congress statement
816
Roanoke Merchants Association D C Wynn president letter 189
851
J Roanoke Va letter__ 187
886
Topeka Daily Capital newspaper article__ 284
908
St Louis Mo PostDispatch December 5 1948 clipping 230
913
Bramblett Hon E K Member of Congress statement__
925
Trinity River area Tex project__
929
Sasscer Hon Lansdale G Member of Congress statement_ 91
933
Magnuson Hon Warren G United States Senator statement 934
934
Scott William P Roanoke Va letter__ 188
941
Umphenour Ray Beatrice Nebr statement_
950
Public works construction of certain bill 259
966
Updike Glenn B Danville Va statement__ 944
971
Smith Nelson Lee Federal Power Commission letter 156972
972
Marion Dam Neosha River Kansas protest statements 451 457
993
Ragland H S Stuttgart Ark letter__ 844
1047
Branch W L Bradford Pa letter____ 127
1066
Nelson Wesley R Bureau of Reclamation statements 332 847 861
1075
Vancouver Lake area Washington project_ 689
1080
Columbia River Interstate Commission 524
1081
Young A W Iola Kans letter__
1083
Vinson Hon Carl Member of Congress statement 49
1094
Connecticut River project 111
1117
Duwamish River Wash project 513
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Page 675 - To agree to furnish, free of cost to the United States, all lands, easements, rights-of-way and spoil-disposal areas for the new work in the improvement of the Hudson River and for subsequent maintenance when and if required.
Page 43 - California, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the plans contained in House Document Numbered 630, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable...
Page 60 - (4) the relationship between potential supplies of, and potential requirements for, manpower, resources, and productive facilities in time of war; "(5) policies for establishing adequate reserves of strategic and critical material, and for the conservation of these reserves ; "(6) the strategic relocation of industries, services, Government, and economic activities, the continuous operation of which is essential to the Nation's security.
Page 45 - Congress approved this project as part of "the comprehensive development of the Savannah River Basin for flood control and other purposes.
Page 394 - I do have a prepared statement that I would like to submit for the record, and I also have a brief comment on some of those projects.
Page 420 - ... hear the justification for the budget estimates of the Commodity Stabilization Service. This agency is under the direction of Dr. James Ralph, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. I believe this is the first time you have appeared before the committee, Dr. Ralph. We are pleased to welcome you here and we will be glad to have any statement you desire to make and for you to present any witnesses you desire to present to the committee. Dr. RALPH. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, it is a...
Page 568 - At that time, we will send copies to the Secretary of the Interior, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, and other interested parties.
Page 381 - One of our projects dealing with snow melt forecasting involves the Corps of Engineers, the Soil Conservation Service, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Bonneville Power Administration and agencies in the states of Colorado, California and Arizona. A complementary project with the Corps of Engineers, using test sites in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Texas and California deals with water runoff and its effect on peak flows, while another project...
Page 155 - ... minutes. I mean that. They will not talk but a minute. The first one I would like for you to hear is Hon. Thomas B. Stanley, who is the Congressman from the district in which this Philpott Dam is located. He would like to make a statement. Senator GURNET. You will talk to the Philpott Reservoir? STATEMENT OF HON. THOMAS B. STANLEY, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF VIRGINIA STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF PHILPOTT RESERVOIR • Representative STANLEY. Yes, sir. Senator GURXEY.
Page 161 - Woodrum; and they are hereby requested to vigorously oppose any bill providing for such taxation; be it further Resolved, That the city clerk be, and he is hereby, directed to mail a copy hereof to said Senators and Representative.

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