Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1959: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1958 - 895 pages

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Page 811 - Secretary notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, shall — (1) prepare annually and submit a budget program as provided for wholly owned Government corporations by the Government Corporation Control Act...
Page 182 - The President of the United States Senate. The Speaker of the House of Representatives. The Secretary of the Interior.
Page 773 - Law 8J>-1.'{3, is an action agency which is empowered by law to "develop, modify, test and evaluate systems, procedures, facilities, and devices, as well as define the performance characteristics thereof, to meet the needs for safe and efficient navigation and traffic control...
Page 780 - The Administrator shall develop, modify, test, and evaluate systems, procedures, facilities, and devices, as well as define the performance characteristics thereof, to meet the needs for safe and efficient navigation and traffic control of all civil and military aviation except for those needs of military agencies which are peculiar to air warfare and primarily of military concern...
Page 266 - Indeed, it might very well be the one scource of strength of the free world which would pluck victory from chaos. With land transport damaged beyond easy repair, only merchant ships, capable of plying the great highway of the seas, would be...
Page 567 - States business groups and standards organizations for the development of international standards of practice; and maintenance of a clearinghouse for the collection and dissemination of scientific, technical, and engineering information.
Page 567 - To search for, collect, classify, coordinate, integrate, record, and catalog such information from whatever sources, foreign and domestic, that may be available; (b) To make such information available to industry and business, to State and local governments, to other agencies of the Federal Government, Sac. and to the general public...
Page 342 - ... purchase or condemnation the right to advertise or regulate advertising in an area adjacent to the right-of-way of a project on the Interstate System for the purpose of implementing this section, the cost of...
Page 707 - Mr. Chairman and members of this committee, I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today and to speak of some of the major concerns of the Blinded Veterans Association.

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