Second Independent Offices Appropriations for 1954: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-third Congress, First Session. Part 1, Part 1 |
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$5 million activities additional Administration Admiral BOONE agencies American Legion amount ANDREWS appropriation authority average BAKER BIGELOW BOYER BUGHER Bureau cancellation costs capacity Chairman CLAPP committee Congress construction contract correct COTTON DEAN dental disability domiciliary electric employees estimate 1954 estimate expenditures expenses facilities FARRIS figure fiscal year 1954 funds going HERSHEY hospitals increase John Sevier JONAS June 30 KAMPMEIER kilowatt-hours kilowatts Memphis ment non-service-connected number of beds Oak Ridge obligations OVEC Paducah patient load payments percent personnel PHILLIPS private utilities projects question reactor record reduction request requirements revised budget Selective Service Selective Service System service-connected staff statement steam plant STIRLING supply taxes TEAGUE Tennessee Valley Tennessee Valley Authority things THOMAS tion units veterans Wilson Dam World War II YATES
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Page 243 - The head of each department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the conduct of its officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, and property appertaining to it.
Page 249 - ... or other endeavors found to be necessary to the maintenance of the national health, safety, or interest solely on the basis of any test, examination, selection system, class standing, or any other means conducted, sponsored, administered, or prepared by any agency or department of the Federal Government or any private institution, corporation, association, partnership, or individual employed by an agency or department of the Federal Government.
Page 792 - The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations...
Page 703 - Administration facility, within the limitations existing in such facilities, irrespective of whether the disability, disease, or defect was due to service. The statement under oath of the applicant on such form as may be prescribed by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall be accepted as sufficient evidence of inability to defray necessary expenses.
Page 246 - The President is authorized from time to time, whether or not a state of war exists, to select and induct into the land and naval forces of the United States for training and service, in the manner provided in this Act, such number of men as in his judgment is required for such forces in the national interest...
Page 246 - Every male citizen of the United States and every male elir-n admitted for permanent residence, who is between the ages of 18 years and 6 months and 26 years...
Page 245 - Except as otherwise provided In this Act, It shall be the duty of every male citizen of the United States, and of every other male person residing in the United States, who, on the day or days fixed for the first or any subsequent registration, is between the ages of...
Page 247 - The Congress further declares that in a free society the obligations and privileges of military training and service should be shared generally in accordance with a fair and just system of selective compulsory military training and service.
Page 247 - No person shall be inducted into the Armed Forces for training and service or shall be inducted for training in the National Security Training Corps under this title until his acceptability in all respects, including his physical and mental fitness, has been satisfactorily determined under standards prescribed by the Secretary of Defense...
Page 103 - ... of development that may be equitably and economically advanced through the expenditure of public funds, or through the guidance or control of public authority, all for the general purpose of fostering an orderly and proper physical, economic, and social development of said areas; and the President is further authorized in making said surveys and plans to cooperate with the States affected thereby, or subdivisions or agencies of such States, or with cooperative or other organizations, and to make...