Construction and Operation of Pipe Line and Navigable Barge Channel Across Florida: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, Second Session, on S. 2426, a Bill to Promote the National Defense and to Promptly Facilitate and Protect the Transport of Materials Needful to the Military Establishemnt by Authorizing the Construction and Operation of Pipe-line and Waterway Facilities Across Northern Florida Between the Intracoastal Waterways Along the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Seaboard, and H.R. 6999 ... June 29, 30, July 1 and 2, 1942Also considers legislation to authorize Intracoastal Waterway enlargement and extension to Mexican border and additional pipeline construction from Ya. |
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Page 16 - America today which is capable of rendering greater service to our country in time of peace as well as in time of war.
Page 1 - Establishment, there is hereby authorized to be constructed under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers...
Page 141 - ... That is right. This is something that I think needs a good look at, General, and we will ask the staff to follow up with your people. In the meantime, they can get some information together on this power situation. Senator BIBLE. A very expensive item, $8 million. Senator JACKSON. That is right, and I think we ought to look at it from the standpoint of sufficiency for the area as a whole. I am sure the local people and the boards have gone into it, but we ought at least to have the full facts....
Page 40 - ... FLORIDA SERVICES OF WITNESS IN CONNECTION WITH FLORIDA CANAL Senator THOMAS. Mr. Buckman, will you give your full name to the reporter ? Mr. BUCKMAN. My name is Henry H. Buckman. Senator THOMAS. Please indicate for the record your present position, if any. Mr. BUCKMAN I am a consulting engineer, and I appear here as engineering counsel for the Ship Canal Authority of the State of Florida.
Page 1 - To promote the national defense and to promptly facilitate and protect the transport of materials and supplies needful to the Military Establishment...
Page 8 - JJ MANSFIELD, Chairman, Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives, Washington, DC MY DEAR MR.
Page 137 - As a member of the Rivers and Harbors Committee of the House for 8 years, I supported those projects.
Page 105 - There is no question but that one of the most serious problems with which we have to deal is that of the shortage of oil and gasoline along the Atlantic seaboard.
Page 11 - You may put it into the record. (The document referred to and submitted by the witness is here printed in full as follows...
Page 51 - Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: ***** Sec.