Navy Department Appropriation Bill for 1947: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 6496, a Bill Making Appropriations for the Navy Department and the Naval Service for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1947, and for Other Purposes. May 30, 1946

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Page 235 - No part of the appropriations made in this act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States 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...
Page 121 - A promise which the promisor should reasonably expect to induce action or forbearance of a definite and substantial character on the part of the promisee and which does induce such action or forbearance is binding if injustice can be avoided only by enforcement of the promise.
Page 220 - ... (B) investigate, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit, any acquisition, holding, withholding, use, transfer, withdrawal, transportation, importation or exportation of, or dealing in, or exercising any right, power, or privilege with respect to, or transactions involving, any property in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest...
Page 236 - I am taking the liberty of sending a copy of this letter to the other members of your committee.
Page 237 - 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 259 - Provided further, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the procurement of any article of food...
Page 18 - To authorize the President to render closer and more effective the relationship between the American republics.
Page 220 - During the time of war or during any other period of national emergency declared by the President, the President may, through any agency that he may designate, or otherwise, and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, by means of instructions, licenses, or otherwise...
Page 119 - Irrespective of the time or circumstances of the making, or the form, of the contract amended or modified, or of the amending or modifying contract, and irrespective of rights which may have accrued under the contract or the amendments or modifications thereof.
Page 174 - The Secretary of State is authorized to— (a) provide for participation by the United States in international activities which arise from time to time in the conduct of foreign affairs for which provision has not been made by the terms of any treaty, convention, or special Act of Congress...

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