Public Works Appropriations for 1958: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, First Session Subcommittee on Public Works Appropriations Clarence Cannon, Missouri, Chairman Louis C. Rabaut, Michigan Ben F. Jensen, Iowa Michael J. Kirwan, Ohio H. Carl Anderson, Minnesota John E. Fogarty, Rhode Island John Taber, New York John J. Riley, South Carolina Ivor D. Fenton, Pennsylvania Joe L. Evins, Tennessee Hamer H. Budge, Idaho Edward P. Boland, Massachusetts Don Magnuson, Washington Carson Culp, Staff Assistant to the SubcommitteeU.S. Government Printing Office, 1957 - Public works |
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