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active additional Admiral CHEATHAM Admiral LARIMER Admiral MOFFETT Admiral PRATT Admiral ROBINSON Admiral Rock Admiral UPHAM Aeronautics air station aircraft airship allocated allowed ammunition amount appropriation average aviation AYRES battleships Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation Budget building Bureau of Aeronautics Bureau of Engineering Bureau of Navigation Captain cent charge Chief Coco Solo Commander BERKEY Commander SHAFROTH commission committee construction contract cost cruisers decrease depot destroyers duty employees enlisted equipment estimate for 1933 expenditures expense figure fiscal year 1933 fleet follows force FRENCH funds Government grade Hampton Roads included increase insert July labor laboratory Lieutenants junior grade maintenance Marine Corps material ment miscellaneous Naval Academy Naval Reserve Navy Department navy yards Nicaragua number of officers OLIVER operating ordnance overhaul Pensacola personnel planes present purchase reduction repair Secretary ships statement subhead submarine supplies TABER tion torpedo Total transferred transportation treaty United vessels
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Page 255 - BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS. The duties of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts comprise all that relates to...
Page 446 - ... shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof...
Page 256 - Navy is responsible for the keeping of the property and money accounts of the Naval Establishment, including accounts of all manufacturing and operating expense at navy yards and stations; the direction of naval cost accounting and the audit of property returns from ships and stations. He...
Page 102 - That in the event of an international agreement for the further limitation of armament, to which the United States is signatory, the President is hereby authorized and empowered to suspend, in whole or in part, any such naval or military construction or mechanization and motorization of Army units...
Page 18 - Last March I appointed a commission to advise me on the special subject of the best policy to insure the future supply of fuel oil for the Navy. That commission will continue to function in its limited field and might to advantage sit with the Conservation Board in the conferences I expect will be between these four Secretaries directly concerned and the outstanding producers of petroleum. Similarly, the members of the Conservation Board will...
Page 805 - July 16, 1862, directing that "the hours of labor and the rate of wages of the employees in the navy yards shall conform, as nearly as is consistent with the public interest, with those of private establishments in the immediate vicinity of the respective yards, to be determined by the commandants of the navy yards, subject to the approval and revision of the secretary of the navy...
Page 825 - The original recoverable content of oil from this reserve, using present methods of recovery, has been estimated by geologists at about 20,000,000 barrels. "Reserve No. 4- — Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 comprises about 35,000 square miles of land in northwest Alaska, near Point Barrow, well within the Arctic Circle. Geological Survey Bulletin 815, issued during September 1930, describes rather fully the conditions existing in this reserve. The only oil seepages actually known are those located...
Page 811 - SEC. 212 (a) After the date of the enactment of this act, no person holding a civilian office or position appointive or elective, under the United States Government or the municipal government of the District of Columbia...
Page 102 - A transfer not exceeding ten per cent, of the allowed total tonnage of the category or sub-category into which the transfer is to be made shall be permitted between cruisers of sub-category (b) and destroyers.
Page 188 - Platt amendment, an intensive survey of the island of Cuba was planned and has been in execution ever since within limited appropriations. The military features are paramount in the surveys of all Mexican, Central American and West Indian waters. It is the general practice of the more powerful nations to make surveys of countries that are unable to make their own, and the United States would not look with favor on any European country making surveys in the West Indies, Mexico, or adjacent waters,...