Independent Offices Appropriation Bill for 1941: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, on the Independent Offices Appropriation Bill for 1941U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940 - Executive departments |
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activities additional Admiral LAND agencies agreement aircraft airplanes American amount applications appropriation approved approximately Assistant average Board Budget Bureau carriers Civil Aeronautics Authority Civil Service clerk clerk-stenographer Commission Commission's Committee Congress construction contract cost CUSTER Department director DIRKSEN District of Columbia Division Electric employees engine equipment estimate examination expenditures facilities Federal Power Act Federal Trade Commission field filed fiscal year 1941 FITZPATRICK funds Government Grade HINCKLEY IHLDER imports increase investigations June 30 Junior Labor Langley Field licensed maintenance Maritime ment National Navy necessary Number of rates obligations Office operation percent personal services personnel positions printing and binding problems projects purchase radio record reduced registers reports requested RYDER securities Senior ships staff STARNES statement statistics stenographer Tariff Tennessee Valley Authority tions salary Total trade tunnel U. S. Maritime Commission United vessels veterans WIGGLESWORTH WOODRUM
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Page 520 - ... owned and operated under the United States flag by citizens of the United States insofar as may be practicable, and (d) composed of the bestequipped, safest, and most suitable types of vessels, constructed in the United States and manned with a trained and efficient citizen personnel.
Page 248 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto...
Page 877 - ... a penalty of five dollars shall be Imposed upon the contractor for each laborer or mechanic for every calendar day In which such employee Is required or permitted to labor more than eight hours upon said work without receiving compensation computed in accordance with this article, and all penalties thus Imposed shall be withheld for the use and benefit of the Government...
Page 878 - I, . . , certify that I am the Secretary of the corporation named as contractor herein; that who signed this contract on behalf of the contractor was then of said corporation; that said contract was duly signed for and in behalf of said corporation by authority of its governing body, and is within the scope of its corporate powers.
Page 874 - Into this day of , 19 by the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, hereinafter called the Government, represented by the contracting officer executing this contract, and...
Page 368 - ... as may be necessary for the execution of the functions vested...
Page 401 - In carrying out the provisions of this joint resolution the President may (a) authorize expenditures for contract stenographic reporting services; supplies and equipment; purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, newspapers and press clippings; travel expenses, including the expense of attendance at meetings when specifically authorized; rental at the seat of government and elsewhere; purchase, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passengercarrying...
Page 875 - OFFICIALS NOT TO BENEFIT No member of or Delegate to Congress or Resident Commissioner shall be admitted to any share or part of this contract or to any benefit that may arise therefrom, but this provision shall not be construed to extend to this contract if made with a corporation for its general benefit. ARTICLE 9.
Page 520 - It is necessary for the national defense and development of its foreign and domestic commerce that the United States shall have a merchant marine (a) sufficient to carry its domestic waterborne commerce and a substantial portion of the waterborne export and import foreign commerce of the United States...
Page 27 - That not to exceed $200,000 of the appropriations contained in this Act for military activities shall be available for the payment of actual transportation expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses of persons serving while away from their homes, without other compensation from the United States, in an advisory capacity to the...