Navy Department Appropriation Bill for 1939: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, Third Session, on the Navy Department Appropriation Bill for 1939

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Page 320 - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and unless the head of the department or independent establishment concerned shall determine it to be inconsistent with the public interest, or the cost to be unreasonable, only such unmanufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been mined or produced in the United States, and only such manufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been manufactured in the United States substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined...
Page 63 - Except as provided in Article 20, the tonnage laid down in any category subject to limitation in accordance with Article 16 shall not exceed the amount necessary to reach the maximum allowed tonnage of the category, or to replace vessels that become "overage" before the 31st December, 1936. Nevertheless, replacement tonnage may be laid down for cruisers and submarines that become "overage" in 1937, 1938 and 1939, and for destroyers that become "overage
Page 804 - Forand. STATEMENT OF HON. AIME J. FORAND, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND Mr. FORAND. Mr. Chairman, I welcome this opportunity to appear before this committee in support of legislation I consider of vital importance.
Page 42 - AN ACT To establish the composition of the United States Navy with respect to the categories of vessels limited by the treaties signed at Washington, February 6, 1922, and at London, April 22, 1930, at the limits prescribed by those treaties ; to authorize the construction of certain naval vessels; and for other purposes," approved March 27, 1934, 48 Stat.
Page 325 - ... and, except as specifically assigned to other cognizance, optical and other devices and material for the control of guns, torpedoes, and bombs. It is charged with the upkeep and operation of the following naval ordnance establishments and with their repairs, except as excluded...
Page 63 - Rules for replacement SECTION I. — Except as provided in Section III of this annex and Part III of the present treaty, a vessel shall not be replaced before it becomes "over-age. " A vessel shall be deemed to be "over-age...
Page 294 - Navy, such employment would be advantageous to the public interests, and messes temporarily set up on shore for officers attached to seagoing vessels, to aviation units based on seagoing vessels including officers...
Page 277 - Navy in time of war or during the existence of a national emergency declared by the President...
Page 62 - In time of war, Turkey not being belligerent, warships shall enjoy complete freedom of transit and navigation through the Straits under the same conditions as those laid down in Articles 10 to 18. Vessels of war belonging to belligerent Powers shall not, however, pass through the Straits except in cases arising out of the application of Article 25 of the present Convention, and in cases of assistance rendered to a State victim...
Page 63 - The right of replacement is not lost by delay in laying down replacement tonnage, and the old vessel may be retained until replaced even though due for scrapping under Chapter II, Part 3, Section II of the Washington Treaty.

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