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Page 17 - For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges...
Page 54 - ... capable of serving as a naval and military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency...
Page 47 - Balances certified by the General Accounting Office, upon the settlement of public accounts, shall be final and conclusive upon the Executive Branch of the Government...
Page 47 - President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said...
Page 69 - Applications for adjustment or exceptions. Any person affected by any provisions of this order may file an application for an adjustment or exception upon the ground that such provision works an exceptional hardship upon him, not suffered by others, or that its enforcement against him would not be in the interest of the national defense program. Such an application may be made by letter or telegram addressed to the Under Secretary for Transportation, Washington 25, DC, reference Tl.
Page 45 - It is the sense of the Congress that any work, service publication, report, document, benefit, privilege, authority, use, franchise, license, permit, certificate, registration or similar thing of value or utility performed, furnished, provided, granted, prepared, or issued...
Page 40 - Study new uses for radio, provide for experimental uses of frequencies, and generally encourage the larger and more effective use of radio in the public interest...
Page 39 - Determine the location of classes of stations or individual stations ; (e) Regulate the kind of apparatus to be used with respect to its external effects and the purity and sharpness of the emissions from each station and from the apparatus therein...
Page 29 - Government of each country may entrust the inspection and survey either to surveyors nominated for the purpose or to organizations recognized by it.

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