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additional Administration Admiral BLOCH Admiral KING Agriculture allocated allotted amount appropriation armory Army ARNOLD artillery average AYRES BACON bill BOLTON bonds building Bureau camps CHAIRMAN Civilian Conservation Corps classrooms COFFMAN COLEMAN COLLINS Colonel JONES Colonel WAITE committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY construction cost CURTISS Department District drill hall employees enrollees enrollment equipment available estimate expenditures expenses facilities Farm Farm Credit Administration FECHNER Federal land banks fiscal year 1935 forests funds going guns HOPKINS loans ment military million months MORGAN MORRELL mortgages Muscle Shoals MYERS Navy Norris Dam OLIVER outdoor training parks percent planes plant projects Public Works Administration purchase relief Reserve Officers revenue salaries Secretary ICKES Secretary MORGENTHAU South Dakota statement TABER Tennessee River Tennessee Valley Authority THURSTON tion Total Training Corps Treasury United University Wheeler Dam
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Page 168 - Authority, a corporation clothed with the power of government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise. It should be charged with the broadest duty of planning for the proper use, conservation and development of the natural resources of the Tennessee River drainage basin and its adjoining territory for the general social and economic welfare of the nation.
Page 357 - Commissioner certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury is equal to the amount by which interest payments on mortgages held by such bank have been reduced...
Page 38 - An act for the relief of unemployment through the performance of useful public work, and for other purposes...
Page 138 - Said bonds shall be issued and sold in amounts and prices approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, but all such bonds as may be so issued and sold shall have equal rank. None of said bonds shall be sold below par, and no fee, commission, or compensation whatever shall be paid to any person, firm, or corporation for handling, negotiating the sale, or selling the said bonds. All of such bonds so issued and sold shall have all the rights and privileges accorded by law to Panama Canal bonds, authorized...
Page 138 - ... negotiating the sale, or selling the said bonds. All of such bonds so issued and sold shall have all the rights and privileges accorded by law to Panama Canal bonds, authorized by section 8 of the act of June 28, 1902, chapter 1302, as amended by the act of December 21, 1905 (ch. 3, sec. 1, 34 Stat. 5), as now compiled in section 743 of title 31 of the United States Code. All funds derived from the sale of such bonds shall be paid over to the Corporation.
Page 358 - ... Commissioner and/or the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation. Any such instrument heretofore or hereafter executed on behalf of the Land Bank Commissioner and/or the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation by a Federal land bank, through its duly authorized officers, shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly authorized by the Land Bank Commissioner and the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation.
Page 168 - It is clear [the message read] that the Muscle Shoals development is but a small part of the potential public usefulness of the entire Tennessee River. Such use, if envisioned in its entirety, transcends mere power development: it enters the wide fields of flood control, soil erosion, afforestation, elimination from agricultural use of marginal lands, and distribution and diversification of industry. In short, this power development of war days leads logically to national planning for a complete...
Page 138 - In the construction of any future dam, steam plant, or other facility, to be used in whole or in part for the generation or transmission of electric power...
Page 168 - Many hard lessons have taught us the human waste that results from lack of planning. Here and there a few wise cities and counties have looked ahead and planned. But our Nation has "just grown." It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many States directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers. This in a true sense is a return to the spirit and vision of the pioneer.
Page 355 - ... in an amount the value of which does not exceed the value of the supplies and equipment purchased for members, provided the value of the purchases made for persons who are neither members nor producers does not exceed 15 per centum of the value of all its purchases.