Surplus Property Act of 1944: Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Department, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 5125, a Bill to Provide for the Disposal of Surplus Government Property and Plants, August 7,8, and 9, 1944 |
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Page 8 - If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any . person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby. SEC. 16. This Act may be cited as the "National Labor Relations Act.
Page 4 - The United States Maritime Commission shall dispose of surplus vessels of one thousand five hundred gross tons or more which the Commission determines to be merchant vessels or capable of conversion to merchant use, and such vessels shall be disposed of only in accordance with the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, and other laws authorizing the sale of such vessels.
Page 12 - I am director of the staff of the Special Committee on Post-war Economic Policy and Planning of the House of Representatives.
Page 34 - THEREFORE, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States...
Page 58 - AFTERNOON SESSION (The committee reassembled, pursuant to the taking of recess, at 2 pm, Hon.
Page 2 - contractor inventory" means (1) any property related to a terminated contract of any type with a Government agency or to a subcontract thereunder; and (2) any property acquired under a contract pursuant to the terms of which title is vested in the Government, and in excess of the amounts needed to complete performance thereunder; and (3) any property which the Government is obligated to take over under any type of contract as a result of any change in the specifications or plans thereunder. (g) The...
Page 34 - State Department, Treasury Department, War Department, Navy Department, Justice Department, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Smaller War Plants Corporation, United States Maritime Commission, War Production Board, Bureau of the Budget, War Food Administration, Federal Works Agency, Civil Aeronautics Board, and the Foreign Economic Administration, it shall be the function of the Administration, to the full extent that such matters are provided for or permitted by law: (a) To have general supervision...
Page 5 - ... (p) to foster the development of new independent enterprise; (q) to prevent insofar as possible unusual and excessive profits being made out of surplus property; (r) to dispose of surplus property as promptly as feasible without fostering monopoly or restraint of trade...
Page 7 - The authority conferred by this Act is in addition to any authority conferred by any other law and shall not be subject to the provisions of any law inconsistent herewith.
Page 184 - Act of 1923, as amended, and may, without regard to the provisions of the civilservice laws and the Classification Act...