Second Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Bill for 1943: Hearings Before Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, Second Session, on the Second Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Bill for 1943

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942 - United States - 538 pages

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Page 382 - Formulate and carry out, through the use of press, radio, motion picture, and other facilities, information programs designed to facilitate the development of an informed and intelligent understanding, at home and abroad, of the status and progress of the war effort and of the war policies, activities, and aims of the Government.
Page 379 - ... applicable to the employment and compensation of officers and employees of the United States...
Page 167 - Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of...
Page 453 - Any officer or employee of the United States traveling on official business overseas or to or from any of the possessions of the United States shall travel and transport his personal effects on ships registered under the laws of the United States where such ships are available unless the necessity of his mission requires the use of a ship under a foreign flag: Provided, That the Comptroller General of the United States shall not credit any...
Page 382 - Senate. (2) If the Foreign Economic Administration ceases to exist in the Office for Emergency Management in the Executive Office of the President...
Page 234 - ... for the purchase of newspapers and periodicals and no specific limitation has been placed thereon, the expenditures therefor under each such appropriation may not exceed the amount of $50: Provided, That this limitation shall not apply to the purchase of scientific, technical, trade, or traffic periodicals necessary in connection with the performance of the authorized functions of the agencies for which funds are herein provided.
Page 456 - State to make a certificate of the amount of such expenditure as he may think it advisable not to specify; and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended.
Page 152 - King, Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations in World War II.
Page 382 - Development, at the head of which shall be a director appointed by the President. The director shall discharge and perform his responsibilities and duties under the direction and supervision of the President.
Page 168 - That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe...

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