War Department Civil Functions Appropriation Bill for 1942: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session, on the War Department Civil Functions Appropriation Bill for 1942U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941 - 169 pages |
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additional airport allocation amount Appropriation Act April Army authorized average BLANDFORD Budget building Bureau cemetery certified CHAIRMAN COLLINS Colonel REBER Colonel REYNOLDS committee completed Congress construction cost County defense projects Department District of Columbia District office DITTER Division DRYDEN Emergency Relief employed employees employment ENGEL engineers estimate expenditures expenses facilities Federal agencies figures fiscal year 1942 flood control Governor EDGERTON hospital housing HUNTER increase industry January JOHNSON of West July June labor LUDLOW MAHON Major General COLEMAN March ment military Mississippi Mississippi River Missouri River month national defense Navy O'NEAL Ohio Panama Canal percent persons plant Projects Administration funds Projects Administration projects projects operated Reservoir REYBOLD river and harbor roads SCHLEY SNYDER South Dakota STARNES statement surveys TABER TERRY tion United War Department War Production Board West Virginia WIGGLESWORTH WOODRUM
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Page 108 - Agriculture, works of improvement for measures of run-off and water-flow retardation and soil-erosion prevention on the watersheds of waterways, for which works of improvement for the benefit of navigation and the control of destructive floodwaters...
Page 81 - June 28, 1938, approved the general comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes in the White River Basin, as set forth in Flood Control Committee Document No. 1, Seventy-fifth Congress, first session, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable...
Page 156 - Mr. TABER. I would like to go into those where WPA provides the labor, regardless of who supervises the men. Mr. CANNON. Mr. Taber, you may continue. CENSUS STATEMENT ON INCREASE IN LABOR FORCE Mr. HUNTER. There is a paragraph that I would like to put in the record at this time, if that is permissible. Mr. CANNON. Yes; you may proceed, Mr. Hunter. Mr. HUNTER. In further answer to Mr. O'Neal's questions about the net increase in the labor force of 600,000, I have a release here from the Bureau of...
Page 160 - States plus 25 per centum; (6) this entire section shall apply only to persons employed in skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory positions on the Canal Zone directly or indirectly by any branch of the United States Government or by...
Page 123 - All contracts or agreements made by the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy for the sale to the government of any American republic of any of the arms, ammunition, or implement...
Page 3 - ... shall be devoted primarily to schools, waterworks, sewers, sewage, garbage and refuse disposal facilities, public sanitary facilities, works for the treatment and purification of water, hospitals and other places for the care of the sick, recreational facilities, and streets and access roads.
Page 158 - Assistant Director" means the Assistant Director of the Bureau of the Budget TITLE II. THE BUDGET. SEC. 201. The President shall transmit to Congress on the first day of each regular session, the Budget, which shall set forth in summary and in detail: (a) Estimates of the expenditures and appropriations necessary in his judgment for the support of the Government for the ensuing fiscal year; except that the estimates for such year for the Legislative Branch of the Government and the Supreme...
Page 85 - If you arc beginning to infringe on or duplicate the work that is done by other branches of the Government, could they not do it? Mr. UTZ. We feel that this work in the interest of flood control is not a duplication of their regular work, but rather that it supplements the regular conservation work done by other branches of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior. For example, the work carried out by certain other bureaus in the Department of Agriculture has soil conservation...
Page 26 - ... shall not apply to projects (1) which have been certified by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, respectively, as being important for military or naval purposes, or (2) which authorize necessary temporary measures to avert danger to life, property, or health in the event of disaster or grave emergency caused by flood, storm, fire, earthquake, drought, or similar cause. The facts constituting compliance with the requirements of this subsection shall be determined by the Commissioner,...
Page 24 - Mr. Chairman and distinguished members of the Committee, it is a privilege to appear before you today to discuss the United States European Command.