Annual Report of the Secretary of WarU.S. Government Printing Office, 1931 |
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Actual expenditures Aggregate available Payments Air Corps airplanes Arm or service Army Industrial College available Payments July balance June 30 Balances in Treasury Carried to surplus Cavalry Certified claims Chemical Warfare Service civilian Civilian Conservation Corps commissioned Congress Corps Area Corps of Engineers disbursing officers June emergency ended June 30 enlisted equipment estimated outstanding obligations estimated unobligated balance excess of payments Field Artillery Finance Department Fiscal year 1932 fiscal year ended Government grades hands of disbursing Infantry Judge Advocate Medical Department Military Academy Mississippi River National Guard National Military Park Navy nonmilitary activities obligations June 30 officers June 30 operation Ordnance Department Panama Canal personnel Philippine Scouts Quartermaster Corps Regular Army Repayments in excess Reserve Officers retired river and harbor Seacoast defenses Secretary of War Signal Corps special funds surplus fund June tion Title of appropriation Total transfer to Department Treasury and hands United United States Army War Department
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Page 8 - Congress to promote, encourage, and develop water transportation, service, and facilities in connection with the commerce of the United States, and to foster and preserve in full vigor both rail and water transportation.
Page 278 - The funds with which the works for the improvement of rivers and harbors were prosecuted during the past fiscal year were derived from the appropriations made by the river and harbor act approved February 27. 1911, and the sundry civil act approved March 4, 1911, from such appropriations as have been provided by other general acts and by special acts of Congress, and from the available balances of former appropriations.
Page 8 - ... general plans for the most effective improvement of such streams for the purposes of navigation and the prosecution of such improvement in combination with the most efficient development of the potential water power, the control of floods, and the needs of irrigation...
Page 53 - War, the Assistant Secretary of War, under the direction of the Secretary of War, shall be charged with supervision of the procurement of all military supplies and other business of the War Department pertaining thereto and the assurance of adequate provision for the mobilization of materiel and industrial organizations essential to wartime needs.
Page 25 - He shall cause to be manufactured or produced at the Government arsenals or Government-owned factories of the United States all such supplies or articles needed by the War Department as said arsenals or Government-owned factories are capable of manufacturing or producing upon an economical basis.
Page 15 - Act, except such land or other property as has heretofore been designated by the President of the United States...
Page 13 - ... enfeebled government. Not alone do these difficulties arise from the intermediate situation we create, but the non-Christian population who are as yet bitterly opposed to the controlling group, constituted at the last Philippine census a majority of the combined population of nine provinces, occupying about 40 per cent of the total land area of the Philippine Islands. The maintenance of order in this considerable element has presented many difficulties to us in the past and it is not reasonable...
Page 295 - study and consider amending the Constitution of the United States to provide that private property may be taken by Congress for public use during war and methods of equalizing the burdens and to remove the profits of war, together with a study of policies to be pursued in the event of war.
Page 61 - Their functions are specifically defined by law and custom and are not directly related to any of the activities which must be undertaken by the central industrial control in war. In general, they are overburdened by their normal peace-time functions.
Page 278 - The following works are provided for by permanent appropriations: Removing sunken vessels; operating and care of dredge boats on upper Mississippi River; removing obstructions in Mississippi River; gauging waters of the Mississippi River and its tributaries; examinations and surveys at South Pass, Mississippi River; maintenance of South Pass channel, Mississippi River; operating snag boats on Ohio River; operating and care of canals, etc.; support and maintenance of the Permanent International Commission...