The Second Supplemental Appropriation Bill, 1955: Hearings Before Subcommittees of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session |
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AANDAHL actual agencies Ambassador WADSWORTH amended ANDRETTA approved approximately authorized average basis Board budget budworm Bureau of Indian CANNON carriers Chairman claims Colonel TAYLOR committee Congress contract contribution cooperatives correct cost countries December 31 Department disaster loans Ecuador Electric employees ENGLES expenditures farmers February 28 Federal figure fiscal year 1955 FOGARTY Forest funds going Government GURNEY HANNA increase Indian Affairs JENSEN June 30 justifications kilowatt-hours kilowatts KIRWAN lands ment military mail million Montana months NELSEN NORRELL obligations Office Old-Age and Survivors operations Pan American PASSMAN payments percent period personal services personnel PHILLIPS PRESTON projects Public Law question REA's Reconstruction Finance Corporation record reimbursement ROONEY ROTHSCHILD Salaries and expenses school districts Southwestern Power Administration statement subsidy supplemental appropriation supplemental request TABER technical assistance THOMAS tion United Nations WHITMAN WIGGLESWORTH workload
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Page 11 - States for assistance and administration of the four programs of public assistance — old-age assistance, aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, and aid to the permanently and totally disabled. For the fiscal year 1057, the Congress approved an appropriation of $1,300 million for grants to States for public assistance.
Page 26 - ... means central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with the use of a correcting lens. An eye...
Page 153 - The encouragement and development of an air transportation system properly adapted to the present and future needs of the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States, of the Postal Service, and of the national defense...
Page 68 - Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, March 13, 1950. pursuant to the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1949, approved June 20, 1949 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION SECTION 1.
Page 26 - disability' means (A) inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or to be of long-continued and indefinite duration, or (B) blindness; and the term 'blindness' means central visual acuity of 5/200 or less in the better eye with the use of a correcting lens.
Page 69 - Director shall direct. (b) Such further measures and dispositions as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall deem to be necessary in order to effectuate the transfers provided for in subsection (a) of this section shall be carried out in such manner as he shall direct and by such agencies as he shall designate.
Page 87 - To the Congress of the United States: I transmit herewith Reorganization Plan No.
Page 177 - The first item to which we shall direct our attention this morning is a supplemental request for the Judiciary contained in House Document No.
Page 274 - Dependable capacity — the load carrying ability for the. time interval and period specified when related to the characteristics of the load to be supplied. Dependable capacity of a station is determined by such...
Page 71 - ... the public interest requires the return of the immediate family for compelling personal reasons of a humanitarian or compassionate nature, such as may involve physical or mental health, death of a member of the immediate family, or obligation imposed by authority or circumstances over which the individual has no control.