Civil Functions, Department of the Army, Appropriations, 1951: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session, Making Appropriations for Civil Functions Administered by the Department of the Army for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1951 |
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Page 863 - ... to reconvene at 2 o'clock pm of the same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION (The Committee reconvened at 2: 15 pursuant to recess.) Chairman MCKELLAR.
Page 851 - Senate, That the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, created under section 3 of the River and Harbor Act, approved June 13, 1902, be and is hereby requested to review the report of the Chief of Engineers on the Ouachita River and tributaries, Arkansas and Louisiana, submitted as Senate Document No.
Page 365 - I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a Resolution adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Newark at a meeting held December 27, 1938.
Page 51 - No changes in these functions are contemplated except that as a result of commercial air-line companies transferringtheir operations from the Canal Zone to the Tocumen Airport in the Republic of Panama the operation of the commercial air terminal at Balboa, CZ, has been discontinued. Also, due to the indefinite postponement of work in connection with the third locks project, and completion of studies of the means of increasing the capacity and security of the Panama Canal, the Special Engineering...
Page 705 - Congress. This recommendation was accepted by the Congress and became part of Public Law 534, in December of 1944. The law contemplates...
Page 454 - Mr. Chairman, I wish to thank the committee for this opportunity to appear before you.
Page 464 - August 1955. I think this dam can be classified in a special category, along with the other one that was requested, in the Virgin Islands. I am sincerely hopeful you will authorize an appropriation in accordance with the figures I have cited, which are the figures submitted to me by the Chief of Engineers. Mr. Chairman, I would like permission to insert in the record a copy of a letter I addressed to the Chief of Engineers on January 16 of this year, together with his response dated January 20, and...
Page 728 - Passed and adopted by the board of supervisors of the county of Sacramento, State of California, this llth day of January, 1950, by the following vote, to wit : Ayes : Supervisors, Bonetti, Conrad, Elmer, Garlick.
Page 703 - In the Ontario-Upland area, rainfall for the season totaled 22.47 inches. In the northern part of Ontario groves from Twenty-fourth Street south on the west side of Euclid Avenue were badly washed. A cloudburst in San Antonio Canyon was the principal cause, and, as usual in cases of...
Page 123 - In view of the discussions last year in connection with our 1950 appropriations as to a possible decline in the cost of construction, I would like to take this opportunity to make a few comments on cost trends. For August 1948, the Engineering...