Stock Piling of Strategic and Critical Materials and Metals. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Mines and Mining of the ... on Stock Piling of Strategic and Critical Materials and Metals. Feb. 11-12, 19471947 - 190 pages |
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25 percent act of June ADKERSON agencies alternate amount ANMB appropriated Army and Navy Army-Navy Munitions Board BARRETT bauxite Bureau of Mines Buy American Capt Captain WADE CARROLL cents Chairman chromite chromium Cmdr commercial committee Congressman contract cost critical materials D'EWART December 31 deposits Deupree domestic production domestic sources electrolytic manganese ENGLE FERNANDEZ ferromanganese funds going Government grade HUNTINGTON industry Interior LEMKE Liaison-ANMB low-grade market price MAULL ment metallic manganese MURDOCK Navy Department Navy Munitions Board operation PEHRSON phosphorus procurement provision Public Law 520 purchase question raw materials reason Reconstruction Finance Corporation reserves ROCKWELL Rutile Secretary Secretary of War SPALDING specifications statement steel STEIN Stock Piling Act strategic and critical Strategic Materials supply surplus property Surplus Property Act tariff tion tons Treasury Department United USNR War Production Board WILLIAM LEMKE wool
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Page 11 - States, or if articles, materials, or supplies of the class or kind to be used or the articles, materials, or supplies from which they are manufactured are not mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case may be, in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available commercial quantities and of a satisfactory quality.
Page 133 - Representatives shall exercise continuous watchfulness of the execution by the administrative agencies concerned of any laws, the subject matter of which is within the jurisdiction of such committee; and, for that purpose, shall study all pertinent reports and data submitted to the Congress by the agencies in the executive branch of the Government.
Page 182 - ... concerning the extent and mode of occurrence, the development, mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances found in the United States or its Territories or insular possessions, which are essential to the common defense or the industrial needs of the United States, and the quantities or grades of which are inadequate from known domestic sources, in order to determine and develop domestic sources of supply, to devise new methods for the treatment and utilization...
Page 66 - That the Secretary of the Interior, through the Director of the Bureau of Mines and the Director of the Geological Survey, is hereby authorized and directed to make scientific, technologic, and economic investigations concerning the extent and mode of occurrence, the development, mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances...
Page 11 - ... other contract for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work in the United States or elsewhere shall be awarded to such contractor, subcontractors, material men, or suppliers with which such contractor is associated or affiliated, within a period of three years after such finding is made public.
Page 87 - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and unless the head of the department or independent establishment concerned shall determine it to be inconsistent with the public interest, or the cost to be unreasonable, only such unmanufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been mined or produced in the United States, and only such manufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been manufactured in the United States substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced,...
Page 11 - United States", when used in a geographical sense, includes the several States and Territories, the insular possessions of the United States (including the Philippine Islands), the Canal Zone, and the District of Columbia. (b) The term "person" includes a partnership, company, association, or corporation, as well as a natural person.
Page 41 - Strategic and critical materials are those materials required for essential uses In a war emergency, the procurement of which in adequate quantities, quality, and time is sufficiently uncertain for any reason to require prior provision for the supply thereof.
Page 67 - The funds so appropriated, including the funds heretofore appropriated, shall remain available to carry out the purposes for which appropriated until expended, and shall be expended under the Joint direction of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy.
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