Wartime Health and Education: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, Volumes 4-7

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944 - United States - 2305 pages

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Page 2255 - President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Each member shall hold office for a term of five years, except that any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of the term and...
Page 2284 - With particular reference to the war of science against disease, what can be done now to organize a program for continuing in the future the work which has been done in medicine and related sciences?.
Page 2283 - The Office of Scientific Research and Development, of which you are the Director, represents a unique experiment of team-work and cooperation in coordinating scientific research and in applying existing scientific knowledge to the solution of the technical problems paramount in war.
Page 1716 - In developing such programs, special regard shall be given to the necessity of integrating them with wartime manpower controls. (c) In consultation with the Government agencies concerned, to develop programs for the adequate care of persons discharged or released from the armed services, including physical and occupational therapy for the wounded and disabled and the resumption of education interrupted by the war.
Page 2255 - The Surgeon General is authorized to utilize the services of any member or members of the Council in connection with matters related to the work of the Service, for such periods, in addition to conference periods, as he may determine.
Page 1722 - To have general supervision and direction of the activities of all Government agencies relating to the retraining and réemployaient of persons discharged or released from the armed services or other war work, including all work directly affected by the cessation of hostilities or the reduction of the war program...
Page 2255 - Institution of Health, and three experts, one each from the Army, the Navy, and the Bureau of Animal Industry, to be detailed by the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of Agriculture, respectively, shall be ex officio members of the Council. The Surgeon General, with the approval of the Administrator, shall appoint, without regard to the civil-service laws, ten members of the Council who shall be persons, not otherwise in the employ of the United States, skilled in the...
Page 1891 - Organizations, the National Association of Manufacturers, the United States Chamber of Commerce, and the Joint Claims Committee of the .Stock and Mutual Casualty Insurance Companies, to discuss health in industry.
Page 2283 - This information, the techniques, and the research experience developed by the Office of Scientific Research and Development and by the thousands of scientists in the universities and in private industry, should be used in the days of peace ahead for the improvement of the national health, the creation of new enterprises bringing new jobs, and the betterment of the national standard of living.
Page 2283 - First: What can be done, consistent with military security, and with the prior approval of the military authorities, to make known to the world as soon as possible the contributions which have been made during our war effort to scientific knowledge?

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