Military Establishment Appropriation Bill for 1940: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 4630, Bill Making Appropriations for the Military Establishment for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1940, and for Other PurposesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 - 163 pages |
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... Panama Canal and Canal Zone , including the following : Compensation of all officials and employees ; foreign and ... Panama Canal , as authorized by the Panama Canal Act ; claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the ...
... Panama Canal and Canal Zone , including the following : Compensation of all officials and employees ; foreign and ... Panama Canal , as authorized by the Panama Canal Act ; claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the ...
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... Panama Canal may deem necessary best to promote the maintenance and operation , sanitation , and civil government of the Panama Canal , all to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal and accounted for as ...
... Panama Canal may deem necessary best to promote the maintenance and operation , sanitation , and civil government of the Panama Canal , all to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal and accounted for as ...
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... Panama best illustrates this : If we did not have the big coast - defense guns and a strong air force in Panama , conceivably the fleet could be bottled up and could not deploy to meet a threat from a hostile fleet . As the fleet would ...
... Panama best illustrates this : If we did not have the big coast - defense guns and a strong air force in Panama , conceivably the fleet could be bottled up and could not deploy to meet a threat from a hostile fleet . As the fleet would ...
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... Panama Canal , have an opportunity to personally present the need for the amendments proposed in the items pertaining to the Panama Canal . General Ridley is now in Panama , and it will be further appreciated if the date for his ...
... Panama Canal , have an opportunity to personally present the need for the amendments proposed in the items pertaining to the Panama Canal . General Ridley is now in Panama , and it will be further appreciated if the date for his ...
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... Panama Canal , " add " and construction of additional facilities " . Explanation . The addition of this clause in the general provisions relating to Panama Canal appropriations is very desirable in connection with the amendment proposed ...
... Panama Canal , " add " and construction of additional facilities " . Explanation . The addition of this clause in the general provisions relating to Panama Canal appropriations is very desirable in connection with the amendment proposed ...
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acres additional Air Corps airplanes Alaska amendment ammunition amount appropriation bill Army engineers ARNOLD Bryan County Budget building camp Captain JERVEY Chairman Chief of Engineers Colonel BROWNE Colonel RUTHERFORD committee Congress construction cost County CRAIG defense Denison Dam Department ELMER THOMAS employees enlisted equipment expenses Field fiscal flight surgeons flood control flying Fort Sill funds Government Governor RIDLEY GREGORY HATCHETT increase insert land MARSHALL ment military National Guard Okla Ordnance Panama Canal percent personnel planes plant post exchange present procurement production proposed question record Red River Regular Army request Reserve Officers Secretary of War Senator ADAMS Senator AUSTIN Senator HAYDEN Senator LODGE Senator O'MAHONEY Senator OVERTON Senator THOMAS statement subcommittee Supplemental estimate THOMAS of Oklahoma tion United UNITED STATES SENATE War Department WESSON
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Page 196 - ... if the benefits to whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the estimated costs, and if the lives and social security of people are otherwise adversely affected.
Page 7 - For the preservation and maintenance of existing river and harbor works, and for the prosecution of such projects heretofore authorized as may be most desirable in the interests of commerce and navigation...
Page 55 - And they constitute navigable waters of the United States within the meaning of the acts of Congress, in contradistinction from the navigable waters of the states, when they form in their ordinary condition by themselves, or by uniting with other waters, a continued highway over which commerce is or may be carried on with other states or foreign countries in the customary modes in which such commerce is conducted by water.
Page 194 - ENGINEERS FOR RIVERS AND HARBORS. The Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors is a permanent body created by the river and harbor act of June 13, 1902. To it are referred for consideration and recommendation all reports upon examinations and surveys provided for by Congress, and all projects or changes in projects for works of river and harbor improvement upon which...
Page 117 - ... under such regulations as may be prescribed by the President of the United States.
Page 9 - Canal from services rendered or materials and supplies furnished to the United States, the Panama Railroad Company, the Canal Zone government, or to their employees, respectively, or to the Panama Government; from hotel and hospital supplies and services; from rentals, wharfage, and like...
Page 196 - Congress that flood control on navigable waters or their tributaries is a proper activity of the Federal Government in cooperation with States, their political subdivisions, and localities thereof...
Page 110 - In comparing bids and in making awards the Governor or his duly authorized representative in the United States may consider such factors as relative quality and adaptability of supplies or services, the bidder's financial responsibility, skill, experience, record of integrity in dealing, and ability to furnish repairs and maintenance services, the time of delivery or performance offered, and whether the bidder has complied with the specifications.
Page 281 - At this point, I would like to place in the record the data that I have, relative to this matter.
Page 7 - Permanent International Commission of the Congresses of Navigation and for the payment of the...