Department of Defense Appropriations for 1959: Department of the Army: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1958 - 722 pages |
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6-month training Active Army active duty actual Admiral PARKER agencies Air Force aircraft Alaska Communication System ammunition amount appropriation approximately areas Army National Guard Army Reserve Army's Average number biological warfare budget program Chairman civilian COLLINS Colonel combat command committee Congress contract Corps cost Department of Defense Direct obligations divisions dollars ENGLER enlisted equipment estimate facilities field figure fiscal year 1959 FLOOD FORD Full-time equivalent going HAYS included increase June 30 logistic MAGRUDER MAHON McGoWAN ment military personnel MILLER million missiles NIKE NORRELL officers Operation and maintenance overseas PALLADINO pentomic percent procurement question record recruiting reduction reenlistment referred to follows reimbursements requirements research and development RILEY ROTC schools SCRIVNER SHEPPARD SIKES statement station stock fund strength supply THEIMER tion Total transportation TRAUB troops United States Army units unobligated balance vehicles weapons WIGGLESWORTH
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Page 267 - Congress feels that it is the strength which we should maintain, and that belief is shared by the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force, so be it.
Page 725 - ... of any contract or other operation deemed by the guaranteeing agency to be necessary to expedite production and deliveries or services under Government contracts for the procurement of materials or the performance of services for the national defense...
Page 265 - The militia of this country must be considered as the palladium of our security, and the first effectual resort in case of hostility. It is essential therefore, that the same system should pervade the whole ; that the formation and discipline of the militia of the continent should be absolutely uniform, and that the same species of arms, accoutrements, and military apparatus, should be introduced in every part of the United States.
Page 185 - WHEREAS certain persons in the State of Arkansas, individually and in unlawful assemblages, combinations, and conspiracies, have wilfully obstructed the enforcement of orders of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas with respect to matters relating to enrollment and attendance at public schools, particularly at Central High School, located in Little Rock School District...
Page 647 - Many members of the Armed Forces of the United States, civilian employees, and their dependents are present in foreign countries as a result of orders of the United States Government Such personnel in foreign countries are amenable to the Jurisdiction of foreign courts and administrative agencies under the agreement regarding status of forces of parties to the North Atlantic Treaty, and similar agreements. Since the United States Government is responsible for the health and well-being of such personnel,...
Page 725 - Government contracts, and without regard to provisions of law relating to the making, performance, amendment, or modification of contracts, to guarantee in whole or in part any public or private financing institution (including any Federal Reserve Hank), by commitment to purchase, agreement to share losses, or otherwise, against loss of principal or interest on any loan, discount, or advance, or on any commitment in connection therewith...
Page 213 - To provide a Reserve component of the Army of the United States, capable of immediate expansion to war strength, able to furnish units fit for service anywhere in the world, trained and equipped — (a) To defend critical areas of the United States against land, sea-borne, or air-borne invasion.
Page 725 - President, is hereby authorized to act, on behalf of any guaranteeing agency, as fiscal agent of the United States in the making of such contracts of guarantee and in otherwise carrying out the purposes of this section.
Page 371 - Supply it for the record at this point. (The information is classified and has been furnished for the use of the committee.) TYPES OF AIRCRAFT FOR USE ON UNIMPROVED AIRFIELDS General WHEELER.