War Expenditures: Aviation. 3 v

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Page 2845 - District, which may require or involve the employment of laborers or mechanics shall contain a provision that no laborer or mechanic doing any part of the work contemplated by the contract, in the employ of the contractor or any subcontractor contracting for any part of said work contemplated, shall be required or permitted to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day...
Page 2833 - No member of or delegate to Congress or resident commissioner, shall be admitted to any share or part of this Agreement, or to any benefit that may arise therefrom; but this provision shall not be construed to extend to this Agreement if made with a corporation for its general benefit.
Page 2845 - For each violation of the requirements of this article 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 United States...
Page 2659 - Whoever, being an officer, agent or member of, or directly or indirectly interested in the pecuniary profits or contracts of any corporation, joint-stock company, or association, or of any firm or partnership, or other business entity, is employed or acts as an officer or agent of the United States for the transaction of business...
Page 2836 - No member of or delegate to Congress or Resident Commissioner is, or shall be, admitted to any share or part of this contract or to any benefit that may arise therefrom except as provided in section 116 of the Act of Congress approved March 4, 1909 (35 Stat.
Page 2845 - ... 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 2845 - In the event of any dispute with reference to wages, hours, or other conditions appertaining to said work, between the Contractor or any sub-contractor and labor employed by him on said work, the Contractor or subcontractor shall immediately notify the Contracting Officer of the existence of such dispute and the reasons therefor. The Contracting Officer may, at his option, instruct the Contractor or sub-contractor involved in such dispute as to the method or steps which the Contractor or sub-contractor...
Page 3025 - Mission therefore recommends the concentration of the air activities of the United States, military, naval, and civilian, within the direction of a single Government agency created for the purpose, coequal in importance with the Departments of War. Navy, and Commerce, to be called In this report, for the purposes of Identification, the National Air Service.
Page 2897 - The French Government is anxious to know if the American Government accepts this proposition, which would allow the Allies to win the supremacy of the air.
Page 3028 - The prerogatives and ambitions of governmental departemuts and of individuals must be assayed at true value. 15. That past experience and every economic consideration point to the vital need for the formulation by the United States of a definite, comprehensive, and continuing policy for the development of every phase of the aircraft art.