Hearings Before the Committee on Mines and Mining ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 |
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Page 111 - ... address myself specifically to the use of subsidies for a roll-back program. I would be very glad to comment on the use of subsidies more generally at a later point. , I would like to say at the very beginning that while there is a philosophy back of this, and I think an excellent philosophy back of it, it is not a matter of theory ; it is a matter of hard and demonstrated experience. Every belligerent without exception is using this device, and the British and the Canadians are. Senator MAYBANK.
Page 122 - ... for the employees of its civil service. We have this unique position in the world, along with a reputation for great wealth and for otherwise liberal expenditures. The entire civilized world has shown great and growing recognition of pensions or retiring allowances; and while the United States is so far behind the rest of the world in civil pensions, it has by far the largest pension list among .the nations. The war and navy pensions are a recognized part of our policy; and in the civil service...
Page 114 - ... American interests is the real occasion. of this country's wealth, this gathering will not have been in vain. Do not misunderstand me. I would not for the world detract from or minimize the importance of the mining industry. Let us therefore illustrate. I was talking with Phil Armour one day. and he said: "I got rich when a young man by watching the coal and iron miners. When they were employed I packed every ham I could get my hands on. My partner, Mr. Plankington, would say: 'Phil, you will...
Page 116 - ... explosives for use in gaseous and dusty mines and the best manner of using such explosives in order to insure safety in mining, under Clarence Hall, explosives engineer; (d) investigations and analyses of explosives used in coal mining, under WO Snelling, explosives chemist; (e) investigations of the conditions under which electricity may be safely used in coal mines where dust or explosive gases are present, under the direction of HH Clark, electric engineer; (/) investigations of the nature,...
Page 136 - If there are no further questions to be asked, we will adjourn subject to the call of the Chair.
Page 86 - ... Two examples which immediately come to mind are school lunch programs and some disaster assistance programs. Mr. Quigley testified before you that his Department regards the discretionary authority provided by title VI as desirable for the educational programs affected by the legislation before you. I confess that I am not sufficiently familiar with the workings of these programs to assess the impact which a mandatory cutoff provision would have. It does not seem to me improbable that situations,...
Page 97 - ... on Growth. The CHAIRMAN. That is what I had in mind when I spoke of this. Dr. JEWETT. The Committee on Growth, as it is called, which is quite a large group of most distinguished men in that field all over the United States, are the ones who maintain the information center for information on cancer everywhere, the Institute, Memorial Hospital, Sloan Kettering, everything...
Page 107 - ... progress of the other, by cutting off also its supply of blood, which he did about a month after the first operation. It is some time since I heard of the patient, but several months after the last operation, she was doing well and the tumours subsiding. The case occurred near Hagerstown, Maryland, about a year and a half or two years ago. There were some interesting physiological facts observed during the progress of the case, which Dr.
Page 120 - The enormous loss of life in the coal mines of this country during the past few years is most appalling.