Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriations: Hearings Before the SubcommitteeU.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 |
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additional administrative Admiral FARLEY agencies air lines approximately ASSISTANT POSTMASTER audit average basis Budget Bureau of Federal Bureau of Internal BURKE CARNES catalog Chairman Civil Aeronautics Board classification schedule clerks Coast Guard collectors CONGRESS THE LIBRARY cost crease deficiency delivery employees equipment estimate for 1950 expenditures Federal Supply fiscal year 1950 funds Government House committee House hearings House report increase insert in lieu Internal Revenue June 30 Justification LIBRARY OF CONGRESS machines MACK ment operations overtime pared with estimate Pending percent Personal services personnel positions Post Office Department postal priation Public Law 900 purchase railway mail service reduction refunds Remington Rand Reserve restoration rural delivery service SCHOENEMAN Secretary SNYDER Senator BRIDGES Senator CORDON Senator HAYDEN Senator KILGORE Senator MAYBANK Senator REED Senator ROBERTSON Senator SALTONSTALL Standard classification Estimate statement STRUBINGER surplus tion Total appropriation typewriters WIGGINS
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