Public Works Appropriations, 1965: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 11579, Making Appropriations for Civil Functions Administered by the Department of the Army, Certain Agencies of the Department of the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and Certain Study Commissions, for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1965, and for Other Purposes, Civil Functions, Department of the Army |
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