First Supplemental Appropriation Bill for 1945: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 5587, an Act Making Appropriations to Supply Deficiencies in Certain Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1944, and for Prior Fiscal Years, and to Provide Supplemental Appropriations for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 1945, and June 30, 1946, and for Other Purposes, [December 9, 11, 12, 13, 1944] |
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... Barge Canal . FLORIDA BARGE CANAL STATEMENT BY HON . CLAUDE PEPPER , A UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA Senator THOMAS . Senator Pepper , you have asked to appear before the committee with respect to the amendment ...
... Barge Canal . FLORIDA BARGE CANAL STATEMENT BY HON . CLAUDE PEPPER , A UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA Senator THOMAS . Senator Pepper , you have asked to appear before the committee with respect to the amendment ...
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... barges may move continuously from Corpus Christi , Tex . , to Trenton , N. J. Such a waterway could move by barges the entire oil production of the midcontinent and southern area and the Texas area tributary to this artery . MILITARY ...
... barges may move continuously from Corpus Christi , Tex . , to Trenton , N. J. Such a waterway could move by barges the entire oil production of the midcontinent and southern area and the Texas area tributary to this artery . MILITARY ...
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... barges , tugs , and so on to deliver what has been regarded as the normal supply would be about the same as 2 years ' bonus for the railroads . As I have stated , the capacity could be the complete output of our oil fields that were ...
... barges , tugs , and so on to deliver what has been regarded as the normal supply would be about the same as 2 years ' bonus for the railroads . As I have stated , the capacity could be the complete output of our oil fields that were ...
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... barges , except the tugs , which would require some steel . CONSTRUCTION OF CONCRETE BARGES Senator MAYBANK . The general advised us yesterday on the con- crete barge that they could be built at the rate of one a day . General REYBOLD ...
... barges , except the tugs , which would require some steel . CONSTRUCTION OF CONCRETE BARGES Senator MAYBANK . The general advised us yesterday on the con- crete barge that they could be built at the rate of one a day . General REYBOLD ...
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... BARGES Senator OVERTON . Now , after the canal is built , or while the canal is being constructed in order to implement it , it would be necessary that additional tugboats and barges be constructed ? General SUMMERALL . Yes , sir ...
... BARGES Senator OVERTON . Now , after the canal is built , or while the canal is being constructed in order to implement it , it would be necessary that additional tugboats and barges be constructed ? General SUMMERALL . Yes , sir ...
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additional agencies agricultural Alien Property Custodian amendment amount ANNAND appropriation bill approved authorized barrels BUCKMAN Chairman Chief of Engineers Colonel GOETHALS completed Congress construction cost CUTLER Department ELMER THOMAS employees equipment estimate expenses facilities fiscal year 1945 flood control funds going Government GRAVES hearings Hungry Horse Dam increase KENNETH MCKELLAR labor manpower ment Navy necessary Norris City Office operation PARTEN PEHLE percent personnel petroleum pipe line plans present proposed question railroads record requested REYBOLD rivers and harbors Senator BRIDGES Senator BURTON Senator GURNEY Senator HAYDEN Senator HOLMAN Senator LODGE Senator MAYBANK Senator MCCARRAN Senator MCKELLAR Senator O'MAHONEY Senator OVERTON Senator PEPPER Senator RUSSELL Senator THOMAS Senator TYDINGS Senator WHITE ships statement steel subcommittee SUMMERALL supply tion transportation Treasury United States Senate War Department War Production Board Washington
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Page 129 - ... foster sound economic conditions in transportation and among the several carriers; to encourage the establishment and maintenance of reasonable charges for transportation services, without unjust discriminations, undue preferences or advantages, or unfair or destructive competitive practices; to cooperate with the several States and the duly authorized officials thereof; and to encourage fair wages and equitable working conditions; — all to the end of developing, coordinating, and preserving...
Page 165 - Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 254 - Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), such additional works in connection therewith as he may deem necessary for irrigation purposes. Such irrigation works may be undertaken only after a report and findings thereon have been made by the Secretary of the Interior as provided in said Federal reclamation laws and after subsequent specific authorization of the Congress by an authorization Act; and, within the limits of the water users...
Page 15 - ... Executive order after such agency or instrumentality has been in existence for more than one year, if the Congress has not appropriated any money specifically for such agency or instrumentality or specifically authorized the expenditure of funds by it. For the purposes of this section, any age/icy or instrumentality including those established by Executive order...
Page 129 - It is hereby declared to be the national transportation policy of the Congress' to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation subject to the provisions of this act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each...
Page 129 - Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation subject to the provisions of this Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each; to promote safe, adequate, economical, and efficient service and foster sound economic conditions in transportation and among the several carriers; to encourage the establishment and maintenance of reasonable charges for transportation services, without unjust discrimination, undue preferences or advantages...
Page 168 - State agricultural experiment stations, the experiment station record, and "workers in subjects pertaining to agriculture in land-grant colleges and experiment stations.
Page 21 - Administrator may allow reimbursement for the actual cost of ferry fares, and bridge, road, and tunnel tolls. In...
Page 15 - After January 1, 1945, no part of any appropriation or fund made available by this or any other Act shall be allotted or made available to, or used to pay the expenses of, any agency or instrumentality including those established by Executive order after such agency or instrumentality has been in existence for more than one year, if the Congress has not appropriated any money specifically for such agency or instrumentality or specifically authorized the expenditure of funds by it.
Page 129 - Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each; to promote safe, adequate, economical and efficient service and foster sound economic conditions in transportation and among the several carriers; to encourage the establishment and maintenance of reasonable charges for transportation services without unjust discriminations, undue preferences or advantages, or unfair or destructive competitive practices; to cooperate with the several States and the duly authorized...