Second Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Bill for 1947: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 3791, an Act Making Appropriations to Supply Urgent Deficiencies in Certain Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1947, and for Other Purposes. June 19, 1947

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Page 18 - Total pay-miles . . Miami-Brownsville-New Orleans to east coast of South America, Central America, and West Indies (excess poundage carried) New York to Europe and Africa
Page 3 - Cattle in the above-described areas are being appraised in the neighborhood of $50 per animal. At $50 per head, $1,250,000 will be required to slaughter the 25,000 head of cattle. This price per head could be slightly more, plus the fact that additional funds will be required in the State of San Luis
Page 14 - in process of being determined by the Board amounting to $7,704,000, leaving an estimated deficiency of $3,919,000. Chairman BRIDGES. Will you give us a break-down under the 1945, 1946, and 1947 appropriations of obligations and expenditures?
Page 18 - Mr. BURGESS. Yes. That would be the pound-miles of mail carried. Chairman BRIDGES. You may not have it up to date but you certainly could take a year like 1946 and provide the information.
Page 3 - which is an immediate threat to the northern part of Mexico and across the border into the United States. The seriousness of this outbreak results from it being on a main
Page 11 - throw away our money if the Mexican Government did not cooperate with use. CONFINEMENT OF DISEASE Secretary ANDERSON. We see the situation in this light. Perhaps I should let the technical people talk about this. Their first effort was to ring it around by eliminations from these fringe, areas and start the program of compressing the disease within the heavily infected zone and they have prevented its
Page 3 - as every effort is being made to get in there immediately and prevent the spread of the disease. Other outbreaks similar to the one in San Luis
Page 10 - Senator YOUNG. It would be better if these members were from the Appropriations Committee but they happened to be the members of the Agricultural Committee's subcommittee on
Page 11 - Senator YOUNG. If we are to be successful in stamping out this disease, I think that is the most important thing because otherwise we

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