War Department Appropriation Bill, 1927, Military Activities: Hearings Before the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, 69th Congress, 1st SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1926 - 786 pages |
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Air Service allowance ammunition amount ANTHONY antiaircraft appropriation asking average BARBOUR Budget buildings cadets caliber Captain ECHOLS Captain PUGH carried cent Chemical Warfare Chief civilian Colonel CASEY Colonel HUNTER Colonel TIMBERLAKE committee Congress Corps Area cost course Department depot duty employees engineer enlisted equipment estimate expenditures expenses figures fiscal year 1927 flying funds Government guns horses increase Infantry Lieutenant Colonel BULLIS Lieutenant Colonel MCADAMS maintenance Major BAILEY Major COTTRELL Major General HAMMOND Major JOHNSON Major LEE Major MCCLURE Major SCOTT Major WAINWRIGHT manufacture McCook Field ment Militia Bureau motor National Guard NOLAN operation ordnance Organized Reserves Panama Panama Canal PATRICK personnel Philippine Scouts planes purchase Quartermaster Corps reduction Regular Army repair reserve officers rifle salaries SALTZMAN seacoast Secretary DAVIS Secretary of War SLADEN statement stations Stokes mortar supplies tank tion transportation troops United WALKER War Department WILLIAMS
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Page 125 - That all officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of all branches of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, when by orders of competent authority they are required to participate regularly and frequently in aerial flights, and when in consequence of such orders they do participate in regular and frequent flights as defined by such Executive orders as have heretofore been, or may hereafter be, promulgated by the...
Page 125 - Officers and enlisted men of the Army shall receive an increase of 50 per centum of their pay when by orders of competent authority they are required to participate regularly and frequently in aerial flights...
Page 139 - Army; if negative, he shall be placed on the unlimited retired list with pay at the rate of 2...
Page 155 - Personnel of any of the services mentioned in the title of this Act performing travel on Government-owned vessels for which no transportation fare is charged shall be entitled only to reimbursement of actual and necessary expenses incurred.
Page 522 - Affairs; for expenses of enlisted men of the Regular Army on duty with the National Guard...
Page 422 - That the Army of the United States shall consist of the Regular Army, the National Guard while in the service of the United States, and the Organized Reserves, including the Officers' Reserve Corps and the Enlisted Reserve Corps.
Page 305 - For operating, repair, and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct, and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $16,500.
Page 481 - Committee found, however, that the effectiveness of the law was not seriously lessened by these exceptions," and there is no reason to believe that there has been any change in this respect. The Columbia Report noted in 1932 that "compulsory liability insurance protects the injured person very much better than any other system now in force," ** and found convincing evidence that the law was also superior in its greater coverage of the losses suffered.
Page 574 - Clothing, for warrant officers, including raw materials for the manufacture of same. Clothing, for Army nurses, including raw materials for the manufacture of same. Clothing and other articles for sales purposes, including raw materials forthe manufacture of same. Clothing, citizens' outer clothing to cost not exceeding $30, to be issued to soldiers discharged otherwise than honorably.
Page 83 - The Inspector General, with his assistants, inspects the United States Military Academy; the service schools ; garrisoned posts and commands; camps of maneuver and instruction; staff offices at department headquarters; general hospitals; armories and arsenals; quartermaster, ordnance, medical, torpedo, signal, and engineer depots, recruit depots and recruiting stations; the disciplinary barracks and its branches; and military prisoners in United States penitentiary...