Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1939: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, Third Session, Volumes 1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938 |
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... activities are so varied and so far - flung that unless we have means of informing the people what we are doing , there is likely to be a great deal of misapprehension . Moreover , the people are entitled to know what we are doing , and ...
... activities are so varied and so far - flung that unless we have means of informing the people what we are doing , there is likely to be a great deal of misapprehension . Moreover , the people are entitled to know what we are doing , and ...
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... activities of the various bureaus and divisions of the Department ; to supervise the preparation , editing , and distribution of official publications and public announcements ; to initiate , prepare , and supervise radio programs spon ...
... activities of the various bureaus and divisions of the Department ; to supervise the preparation , editing , and distribution of official publications and public announcements ; to initiate , prepare , and supervise radio programs spon ...
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... ACTIVITIES Mr. RICH . Mr. Secretary , several years ago when we took up the public domain , it was the intention and purpose to try to have the grazing of the country under one Department . Secretary ICKES . That is right . Mr. RICH ...
... ACTIVITIES Mr. RICH . Mr. Secretary , several years ago when we took up the public domain , it was the intention and purpose to try to have the grazing of the country under one Department . Secretary ICKES . That is right . Mr. RICH ...
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... activities the sum of $ 474,960 is requested for the fiscal year 1939 . This provides for increases totaling $ 54,960 over the appropriation of $ 420,000 available for the current fiscal year . Of the total increase $ 5,340 is the ...
... activities the sum of $ 474,960 is requested for the fiscal year 1939 . This provides for increases totaling $ 54,960 over the appropriation of $ 420,000 available for the current fiscal year . Of the total increase $ 5,340 is the ...
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... activities of the Department and the decrease of emergency work this additional position is needed to effect a more equitable distribution of cost . The volume of regular Interior Department mail handled by the unit fully justifies the ...
... activities of the Department and the decrease of emergency work this additional position is needed to effect a more equitable distribution of cost . The volume of regular Interior Department mail handled by the unit fully justifies the ...
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acre-feet acres additional administration Alaska Alaska Railroad allotment amount appropriation approved approximately authorized Bituminous Coal Boise project Boulder Dam Budget building Bureau of Mines BURLEW CAMMERER canal CHAIRMAN charge Coal Commission Colonel OHLSON Colorado Colorado River committee Congress construction cost CRAMER DEMARAY District of Columbia Division employees equipment estimate for 1939 expenditures expenses Federal field fiscal year 1939 FITZPATRICK Geological Government grazing HAVELL HOSFORD increase industry Interior Department investigations irrigation irrigation district JOHNSON June 30 justification LAMBERTSON LEAVY LEIZEAR MENDENHALL ment miles mineral National Park Service necessary needed O'NEAL operation and maintenance percent personnel power plant production purchase purpose railroad reclamation fund repair requested Reservoir revenues RICH River roads salaries SCRUGHAM statement stations storage STUDEBAKER supply surveys Taylor Grazing Act tion Total United vocational education Washington
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Page 689 - Washington a department of education for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.
Page 693 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Page 722 - An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and their return to civil employment," approved June 2, 1920, as amended (USC title 29, ch.
Page 223 - That five per centum of the proceeds of the sales of public lands lying within said State which shall be sold by the United States subsequent to the admission of said State into the Union, after deducting all the expenses incident to the same, shall be paid to the said State, to be used as a permanent fund, the interest of which only shall be expended for the support of the common schools within said State.
Page 694 - ... for providing courses for the special preparation of instructors for teaching the elements of agriculture and the mechanic arts.
Page 229 - ... for permanent forest production, and the timber thereon shall be sold, cut and removed in conformity with the principle of sustained yield for the purpose of providing a permanent source of timber supply, protecting watersheds, regulating stream flow, and contributing to the economic stability of local communities and industries, and providing recreational facilities...
Page 436 - That it shall be the province and duty of the Bureau of Mines, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning mining, and the preparation, treatment, and utilization of mineral substances...
Page 723 - An Act to authorize the operation of stands In Federal buildings by blind persons, to enlarge the economic opportunities of the blind, and for other purposes," approved June 20, 1936, 49 Stat.
Page 179 - The committee shall have the power, without regard to the civil-service laws and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended...
Page 617 - For the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges, in national parks, monuments, and other areas administered by the National Park Service...