Defense Industrial Base: Industrial Preparedness and Nuclear War Survival : Hearings Before the Joint Committee on Defense Production, Congress of the United States, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session- ....

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Page 43 - 5(b) permits such release on order of the President in time of war or during a national emergency with respect to common defense proclaimed by the President. In 1965, the Attorney General was requested to rule on the release of copper from the stockpile at a time when the copper industry was threatened by both disruption of supply and price escalation.
Page 43 - Section 5(a) provides that a release of material from such a stockpile may be made by a Presidential order at any time when, in his judgment, such release is "required for purposes of common defense.
Page 1 - OF THE UNITED STATES, JOINT COMMITTEE ON DEFENSE PRODUCTION, Washington, DC The committee met, pursuant to recess, at 10:05 am, in room 5302, Dirksen Senate Office Building,
Page 101 - the necessary legislative and administrative actions to develop a comprehensive strategic and economic stockpiling and inventories policies which facilitates the availability of essential resources,
Page 45 - to support military requirements and the basic civilian economy during periods of extended conflict and when normal foreign supplies of these materials are disrupted. By maintaining appropriate levels of these materials in the stockpile.
Page 85 - Bennett, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and Critical Materials of the House Armed Services Committee. The
Page 3 - the National Security Act of 1947, the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act of 1946, the Defense Production Act of 1950, the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950,
Page 43 - necessary legislative and administrative actions to develop a comprehensive strategic and economic stockpiling and inventories policies which
Page 83 - The committee will stand in recess. [Whereupon, at 12:51 pm, the committee recessed subject to the call of the Chair.] 1
Page 37 - In the interest of saving time, if I may, I would like to have the entire statement submitted for the record,

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