Independent Offices Appropriations for 1954: Hearings ... 83d Congress, 1st Session |
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81st Congress Accounting Office activities actual 1953 estimate additional Administration agencies ALLDREDGE amount annual leave appropriation Assistant audit authority Average number Average salary Board building Bureau carriers Chairman claims Commissioner committee common carriers Comptroller Congress contract contractual services cost COTTON Department Director District of Columbia Division employees estimate 1954 estimate expenditures Federal Power Act Federal Trade Commission field filed fiscal year 1954 functions funds GLENDENING going Government grades hearing increase industry Interstate Commerce Commission investigation JONAS Judge KERN June 30 justification matter McENTIRE ment million National National Science Foundation NORRIS COTTON Obligations incurred payments percent permanent positions personnel PHILLIPS Printing and reproduction Public Law question record reduction regulations Reimbursements Rent Stabilization request REYNOLDS RYDER staff statement subcommittee Supplies and materials THOMAS tion United WALKER War Claims Commission Washington WATERMAN YATES
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Page 276 - The Commission may provide for the publication of its reports and decisions in such form and manner as may be best adapted for public information and use...
Page 351 - Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution, and to determine the problems which should be experimentally attacked, and to discuss their solution and their application to practical questions...
Page 106 - ... director and such other personnel as may be necessary to enable the Commission to carry out its functions...
Page 290 - ... prescribe law or policy or to describe the organization, procedure, or practice requirements of any agency and includes the approval or prescription for the future of rates, wages, corporate or financial structures or reorganizations thereof, prices, facilities, appliances, services or allowances therefor or of valuations, costs, or accounting, or practices bearing upon any of the foregoing. "Rule making" means agency process for the formulation, amendment, or repeal of a rule.
Page 427 - 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 290 - Territory, at the request of such commissioner or commission, and may institute any inquiry on its own motion in the same manner and to the same effect as though complaint had been made. No complaint shall at any time be dismissed because of the absence of direct damage to the complainant.
Page 350 - Standards; together with not more than five additional persons who shall be acquainted with the needs of aeronautical science, either civil or military, or skilled in aeronautical engineering or its allied sciences...
Page 603 - ... before the Ways and Means Committee of the House and the Finance Committee of the Senate, the amendment was not adopted.
Page 386 - 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 worldwide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges...
Page 294 - [t]o administer, execute, and enforce all provisions of this part, to make all necessary orders in connection therewith, and to prescribe rules, regulations, and procedure for such administration.