Report of the Department of the Interior ... [with Accompanying Documents].U.S. Government Printing Office, 1945 |
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... amounted to $ 27,000,000 . The Continental Shelf cost only the forethought that was required to assert our sovereignty over it . Regional development is not a new theory of conservation , but rather an improved technique for developing ...
... amounted to $ 27,000,000 . The Continental Shelf cost only the forethought that was required to assert our sovereignty over it . Regional development is not a new theory of conservation , but rather an improved technique for developing ...
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... amounting to $ 12,000,000 . The Solid Fuels Administration for War Despite numerous difficult wartime obstacles , the coal mining in- dustry has supplied the unprecedented quantities of fuel required by war production plants to equip ...
... amounting to $ 12,000,000 . The Solid Fuels Administration for War Despite numerous difficult wartime obstacles , the coal mining in- dustry has supplied the unprecedented quantities of fuel required by war production plants to equip ...
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... amounting to more than 600,000 acres , make it difficult to furnish adequate protection to Federal properties , add to the expense of providing needed develop- ments , and are open to undesirable and destructive uses . The controversy ...
... amounting to more than 600,000 acres , make it difficult to furnish adequate protection to Federal properties , add to the expense of providing needed develop- ments , and are open to undesirable and destructive uses . The controversy ...
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... amounted to more than the cost of building the irrigation systems . More than 91,000 family - sized farms are provided with irrigation water through the 52 operating projects of the Bureau , and nearly five million people live in the ...
... amounted to more than the cost of building the irrigation systems . More than 91,000 family - sized farms are provided with irrigation water through the 52 operating projects of the Bureau , and nearly five million people live in the ...
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... amounted to 4,512,000 bushels . The average per acre value of crops on Bureau - irrigated lands in 1944 was also the highest on record , an average of $ 99.27 per acre , compared with a per acre average of $ 47.30 in 1941. The highest ...
... amounted to 4,512,000 bushels . The average per acre value of crops on Bureau - irrigated lands in 1944 was also the highest on record , an average of $ 99.27 per acre , compared with a per acre average of $ 47.30 in 1941. The highest ...
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Page vi - Interior, who shall transmit and dispose of such power and energy in such manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles, the rate schedules to become effective upon confirmation and approval by the Federal Power Commission.
Page 11 - Gruening, director of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions of the Department of the Interior.
Page 7 - Department, and other public and private agencies have pointed to the need for extending the coverage of the Old Age and Survivors Insurance provisions of the Social Security Act...
Page 57 - Administration to the Grand River Dam Authority, an agency of the State of Oklahoma, for the construction of the project.
Page 309 - MAIL SERVICE The transportation of mails in Alaska is under the supervision of the superintendent of the Thirteenth Division, Railway Mail Service, Seattle, Wash. This office exercises supervision over the entire Alaska service and has immediate charge of all service in southeastern Alaska and all direct steamship service from Seattle.
Page 311 - Four-year degree courses were offered in agriculture, arts and letters, business administration, chemistry, civil engineering, education, general science, home economics and premedicine.
Page 197 - Case. making, the' road hereby authorized to be laid out, or of any part thereof." 3 Stat. 604. In 1822 the road had been finished from Cumberland to Wheeling. In the same year, an act ordering the erecting of toll gates and the imposition of tolls on the road was passed by both houses of Congress, but was vetoed by President Monroe. A continuance of the road was laid out, graded, bridged and made a highway from the Ohio River opposite Wheeling to the seat of government of the State of Missouri,...
Page 3 - The commission is charged with the construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, and trails in Alaska. Construction and maintenance of airfields, telephone lines, and shelter cabins are also undertaken for the Territory. Funds are made available for this work by annual congressional appropriations, from the "Alaska Fund," and from contributions by the Territory of Alaska and others.
Page 131 - An Act authorizing associations of producers of aquatic products" approved June 25, 1934 (15 USC 522); review of orders of petroleum control boards under section 5 of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in petroleum and its products by prohibiting the shipment in such commerce of petroleum and its products produced in violation of State law, and for other purposes...
Page 228 - Washington 1 am going to set up a study of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands as a place to which many veterans of this war, especially those who do not have strong home roots, can go to become pioneers.