Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriations: Hearings Before the SubcommitteeU.S. Government Printing Office, 1948 |
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... of equipment that is used to produce currency and securities , the experience has been that replacements are needed each year to keep the Bureau working at peak efficiency 6 TREASURY AND POST OFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL , 1949.
... of equipment that is used to produce currency and securities , the experience has been that replacements are needed each year to keep the Bureau working at peak efficiency 6 TREASURY AND POST OFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL , 1949.
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... experience a substantial reduction in personnel from 1947 to 1948 as the result of an appropriation cut for the fiscal year 1948. The reduction in number of employees , to adjust to this situation , was not completed until early in ...
... experience a substantial reduction in personnel from 1947 to 1948 as the result of an appropriation cut for the fiscal year 1948. The reduction in number of employees , to adjust to this situation , was not completed until early in ...
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... experience here with the Treasury for the past 14 months , in giving a great deal of time and effort to the subject of our tax structure and the problems and needs in view of current conditions and the probabilities ahead , that there ...
... experience here with the Treasury for the past 14 months , in giving a great deal of time and effort to the subject of our tax structure and the problems and needs in view of current conditions and the probabilities ahead , that there ...
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... experience so we have been doing a tremendous amount of research . NECESSITY FOR PUBLICITY AND PERSONAL CONTACTS We find that we have to ask the people to buy the bonds before you can sell them . We need the radio programs , we need the ...
... experience so we have been doing a tremendous amount of research . NECESSITY FOR PUBLICITY AND PERSONAL CONTACTS We find that we have to ask the people to buy the bonds before you can sell them . We need the radio programs , we need the ...
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... experience . Now we feel that we can do the job , in round numbers , with 535 people ; that is , the whole country over . We are not building up our Washington staff . You do not sell bonds at Washington , you sell them at grass roots ...
... experience . Now we feel that we can do the job , in round numbers , with 535 people ; that is , the whole country over . We are not building up our Washington staff . You do not sell bonds at Washington , you sell them at grass roots ...
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additional agencies air mail amount appropriation approximately Assistant Postmaster audit average Braniff Braniff Airways Budget Bureau of Federal Bureau of Internal carriers cents Chairman Civil Aeronautics Board CONGRESS THE LIBRARY cost Division DONALDSON effect efficiency employees equipment estimate Federal Supply field fiscal year 1949 functions GLEASON Government GUY CORDON HAHN handling House committee House report increase Internal Revenue Interstate Commerce Commission investigation June 30 KURTH letter LIBRARY OF CONGRESS machines mail pay McLARNEY ment O'CONNELL OLIPHANT operation Panagra percent personal services personnel Post Office Department postal service present printing and binding procurement purchase reduction requested restoration returns revenue agents route salaries savings schedule and justification SCHOENEMAN Senator CORDON Senator FERGUSON Senator HAYDEN Senator MCKELLAR Senator REED statement subcommittee supply fund taxpayers tion Treasury and Post Treasury Department trucks typewriters United volume Washington WIGGINS
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