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- ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - Defense contracts |
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... copper shortages , which forced the War Pro- Board to close all gold and silver mines in order to shift workers and nt to the copper mines . Mine worker requirements were further supple- by military personnel . The WPB took additional ...
... copper shortages , which forced the War Pro- Board to close all gold and silver mines in order to shift workers and nt to the copper mines . Mine worker requirements were further supple- by military personnel . The WPB took additional ...
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... copper , is a material whose requirements increase dramat- ically during wartime . The principal military application for lead are storage batteries and small arms ammunition . Current military technology anticipates very mobile land ...
... copper , is a material whose requirements increase dramat- ically during wartime . The principal military application for lead are storage batteries and small arms ammunition . Current military technology anticipates very mobile land ...
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... copper for electrical uses . Beryllium is one of two aterials for which a " special material " adjustment is made because sity of wartime use in military applications . cipated wartime requirements for beryllium average about 28,000 ...
... copper for electrical uses . Beryllium is one of two aterials for which a " special material " adjustment is made because sity of wartime use in military applications . cipated wartime requirements for beryllium average about 28,000 ...
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... copper or any one of those exceeds what we think our supply sources are - and obviously our domestic supply source ... copper for instance . General BRAY . Yes , sir . Senator PROXMIRE . Is the influence of the State Department with ...
... copper or any one of those exceeds what we think our supply sources are - and obviously our domestic supply source ... copper for instance . General BRAY . Yes , sir . Senator PROXMIRE . Is the influence of the State Department with ...
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... copper when domestic production is very large , and foreign sources benefit from increased goals are Chile and Zambia and Zaire . General BRAY . I will show you very clearly that our projected re- quirements for copper in a wartime ...
... copper when domestic production is very large , and foreign sources benefit from increased goals are Chile and Zambia and Zaire . General BRAY . I will show you very clearly that our projected re- quirements for copper in a wartime ...
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Administration aluminum Annual Materials Plan ASARCO assumptions ator PROXMIRE basis beryllium budget Chairman civilian tier Committee on Defense commodities common defense CONGRESS THE LIBRARY copper cost Defense Production Defense Production Act developed disruption domestic economic stockpile emergency eral essential civilian estimates Federal Preparedness Agency Ferro funds going Government GROSSHANS impact increase interagency judgment LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS long tons major materials policy ment methodology mining industry National Commission National Security Council nator needs nuclear options peacetime percent period pile planning factors political reliability President priority question ral BRAY release response rials rutile Senator PROXMIRE shellac short tons sources specific STAATS stockpile goals stockpile objectives stockpile planning stockpile policy strategic and critical strategic stockpile STRAUSS substitution Supplies and Shortages three-year tion United wartime requirements William Proxmire World War II
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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,