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Page 136 - April 14, 1909, the Bureau of Construction and Repair and the Bureau of Steam Engineering submit herewith joint estimates (see estimate sheet D and comparative statement herewith), under appropriations "Increase of the navy, construction and machinery; "Increase of the navy, torpedo boats;" and "Increase of the navy, colliers...
Page 126 - Government hereby gives its authorization and consent (without prejudice to any rights of indemnification) for all use and manufacture, in the performance of this contract or any part hereof or any amendment hereto or any subcontract hereunder (including any lower-tier...
Page 126 - That whenever an invention described in and covered by a patent of the United States shall hereafter be used by the United States without license of the owner thereof or lawful right to use the same, such owner may recover reasonable compensation for such use by suit in the Court of Claims...
Page 137 - An allotment was made to the forest products laboratory of the Department of Agriculture, at Madison, Wis...
Page 127 - States without license of the owner thereof or lawful right to use or manufacture the same, such owner's remedy shall be by suit against the United States in the Court of Claims for the recovery of his reasonable and entire compensation for such use and manufacture...
Page 62 - ... north 20° west from mount Raymond is Morse mountain. On the southern part of this hill chloritic schist alone appears, but the northern part of the hill shows a wide outcrop of banded and rusty chert which continue more or less in a direction north 30° east between Heart mountain and Cushing lake for a distance of about a quarter of a mile, where they disappear in low ground.
Page 61 - The herculean efforts of the men of labor to arouse the people of the country to a realization of the danger which threatens our constitutional liberties will go down in the annals of history as one of the great crusades for the maintenance and advancement of human rights.
Page 86 - PROVED A COMPLETE SUCCESS. This decision, so far-reaching in its application and so fraught with danger to the professional reputation of the officers concerned, was made in the face of opposition by engine builders and by marine insurance companies, but with such confidence in the ultimate result as left no room for doubt of its success.
Page 29 - Big Bertha" had on the French, and, furthermore, that the Germans were in great awe of, and in fact, regarded with fear and superstition, shells the size of a box car sounding like an express train coming through the air, which landed with fearful havoc so far behind their lines that it was Inconceivable to them how a gun could be built that could hurl them such a distance.