The Supplemental Appropriation Bill for 1951: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session ... Department of Defense, Mutual Defense Assistance Program

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950 - United States - 552 pages

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Page 17 - The funds in this appropriation are required by the Secretary of Defense for emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising in the Department of Defense, to be expended on the approval or authority of the Secretary of Defense.
Page 17 - For transfer by the Secretary of Defense, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, to any appropriation for military functions under the Department of Defense available for research, development, test, and evaluation, or procurement or production related thereto, to be merged with and to be available for the same purposes, and for the same time period, as the appropriation to which transferred...
Page 313 - equipment » and « materials » shall mean any arms, ammunition or implements of war, or any other type of material, article, raw material, facility, tool, machine, supply, or item that would further the purposes of this Act, or any component or part thereof, used or required for use in connection therewith, or required in or for the manufacture, production, processing, storage, transpor tation, repair, or rehabilitation of any equipment or materials, but shall not include merchant vessels. (b)...
Page 129 - Apr. 3 Alaska, transferring a portion of the lands reserved by Executive Order No. 8877 of Aug. 29, 1941, from the Department of the Army to the Department of the Navy; partially revoking and amending Executive Order No. 8877.
Page 313 - For the purpose of this subsection, the gross cost of any equipment or materials taken from the mobilization reserve means either the actual gross cost to the United States of that particular equipment or materials or the estimated gross cost to the United States of that particular equipment or materials obtained by multiplying the number of units of such particular equipment or materials by the average gross cost of each unit of that equipment and materials owned by the furnishing agency.
Page 22 - Army, as authorized by law ; and not to exceed $ for emergencies and extraordinary expenses, to be expended on the approval or authority of the Secretary of the Army, as payments may be made on his certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes, and his determination shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Government; $ , of which not less than $ shall be available only for the maintenance of real property facilities.
Page 197 - I strongly support the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations in their efforts to attain increased and balanced Naval force levels sufficient to ensure continuing freedom in our use of the seas.
Page 22 - Defense available for military construction as he may designate, to be merged with and to be available for the same purposes, and for the same time period, as the appropriation or fund to which transferred: Provided further, That of the amount appropriated, not to exceed...
Page 451 - July 1953 to permit expanded operation of the Coco Solo Naval Hospital to care for additional patients anticipated due to the closing of Colon Hospital. This request was approved by the Secretary of Defense and the Bureau of the Budget, and we had every reason to believe that the first patients would be received in August. However, we have not yet received the anticipated additional patients. The Navy has done everything it possibly can to effect the planned consolidation of hospital facilities in...
Page 313 - mobilization reserve," as used with respect to any equipment or materials, means the quantity of such equipment or materials determined by the Secretary of Defense under regulations prescribed by the President to be required to support mobilization of the armed forces of the United States in the event of war or national emergency until such time as adequate additional quantities of such equipment or materials can be procured.

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