Independent Offices Appropriations for 1956: Hearings ... 84th Congress, 1st Session |
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accounting activities actual 1955 estimate Administration agencies amount applications appropriation ARPAIA asked audit authority Average number backlog basic biology Board budget Bureau carriers Chairman civil defense Civil Service Commission Commissioner committee common carrier companies Congress contract cost DEMMLER Department District of Columbia Division Engineering equipment estimate 1956 estimate EVINS examination Federal Federal Trade Commission field figure filed financing fiscal year 1956 funds Genetic biology going Government HAMM HENNOCK HERSHEY HoWREY increase industry inspection International Geophysical investigation June 30 jurisdiction justifications KUYKENDALL ment million National Science National Science Foundation Natural Gas Number of employees Obligations incurred operations OSTERTAG percent Personal services personnel PETERSON PHILLIPS positions problem projects radio rates record requested salaries staff statement stations STROBEL supplies things THOMAS tion Total United utilization WATERMAN WEITZEL workload YATES YOUNG
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Page 454 - ... to cooperate with the several States and the duly authorized officials thereof; and to encourage fair wages and equitable working conditions; — all to the end of developing, coordinating, and preserving a national transportation system by water, highway, and rail, as well as other means, adequate to meet the needs of the commerce of the United States, of the Postal Service, and of the national defense.
Page 616 - General as totalitarian, fascist, communist, or subversive, or as having adopted a policy of advocating or approving the commission of acts of force or violence to deny other persons their rights under the Constitution of the United States, or as seeking to alter the form of government of the United States by unconstitutional means
Page 454 - That the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used, under a common control, management, or arrangement, for a continuous carriage or shipment...
Page 616 - Membership In, or affiliation or sympathetic association with, any foreign or domestic organization, association, movement, group, or combination of persons which Is totalitarian. Fascist, Communist, or subversive...
Page 672 - 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 456 - From and after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and fourteen, it shall be unlawful for any railroad company or other common carrier subject to the act to regulate commerce to own, lease, operate, control, or have any interest whatsoever (by stock ownership or otherwise, either directly, indirectly, through any holding company, or by stockholders or directors in common, or in any other manner) in any common carrier by water operated through the Panama...
Page 680 - 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 616 - Any facts which furnish reason to believe that the individual may be subjected to coercion, influence, or pressure which may cause him to act contrary to the best interests of the national security.
Page 616 - ... inimical to the interests of the United States, or with any person who advocates the use of force or violence to overthrow the government of the United States or the alteration of the form of government of the United States by unconstitutional means.
Page 255 - Act; and (8) to maintain a register of scientific and technical personnel and in other ways provide a central clearinghouse for information covering all scientific and technical personnel in the United States, including its Territories and possessions.