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Air Nitrates Corporation Alabama Power Alabama Power Co ALSBERG amatol American Cyanamid American Cyanamid Co ammonia ammonium nitrate amount approved ARTICLE BARUCH building BURNS capacity cars cent Chemical Chief of Ordnance Chile Chilean nitrate Colonel committee concrete connection construction contracting officer contractor cost cubic cyanamid process dams electric engineer equipment estimate expense explosives fertilizer fixation furnish GARRETT Government GRAHAM Haber process HOFFER howitzer Industries Board installation JEFFERIS JOYES Kerr & Co labor manufacture MARLEY materials ment MOBERLY Muscle Shoals necessary Nitrate Division nitrate plant nitric acid operation Ordnance Department paid PARSONS pay rolls payment pounds production purposes RAGGONET Reduction River S. C. gun Secretary BAKER Secretary of War Shell SHOBE sodium nitrate square feet STROSS substation Tennessee River thereof thing tion tons Total transportation United States nitrate War Industries Board Warrior extension WASHBURN water power
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Page 2566 - ... dams, locks, improvements to navigation, powerhouses, and other plants and equipment or other means than water power as, in his judgment is the best and cheapest, necessary, or convenient for the generation of electrical or other power and for the production of nitrates or other products needed for munitions • of war and useful in the manufacture of fertilizers and other useful products.
Page 2730 - States, is or shall be admitted to any share or part of this contract, or to any benefit that may arise therefrom, but this article shall not apply to this contract so far as it may be within the operation or exception of section 116 of the act of Congress approved March 4, 1909 (35 Stats., 1109).
Page 2759 - No laborer or mechanic doing any part of the work contemplated by this contract, in the employ of the Contractor or any subcontractor contracting for any part of said work contemplated, shall be required or permitted to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day...
Page 2965 - The Contracting Officer may. from time to time, by written instructions or drawings issued to the Contractor, make changes in said drawings and specifications, issue additional instructions, require additional work, or direct the omission of work previously ordered...
Page 2759 - That the wages of persons employed upon such contracts shall be computed on a basic day rate of eight hours work with overtime rates to be paid for at not less than time and one-half for all hours work in excess of eight hours.
Page 2952 - Loading and unloading such construction plant, the transportation thereof to and from the place or places where it is to be used in connection with said work...
Page 2756 - Such other items as should in the opinion of the Contracting Officer be included in the cost of the work. When such an item is allowed by the Contracting Officer, it shall be specifically certified as being allowed under this paragraph.
Page 2563 - Act; and is further authorized to construct, maintain, and operate, at or on any site or sites so designated, dams, locks, improvements to navigation, power houses, and other plants and equipment or other means than water power as In his judgment is the best and cheapest, necessary or convenient for the generation of electrical or other power and for the production of nitrates or other products needed for munitions of war and useful in the manufacture of fertilizers and other useful products.
Page 2955 - ... contractor or any subcontractor contracting for any part of said work contemplated, shall be required or permitted to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day upon such work; and...
Page 2959 - The contractor shall, in the shortest possible time, furnish the labor, material, tools, machinery, equipment, facilities, and supplies, and do all things necessary for the construction and completion...