Third Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Bill for 1941: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, on the Third Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Bill for 1941

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940 - 138 pages
 

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Page 67 - This section shall not apply with respect to articles, materials, or supplies for use outside the United States, or if articles, materials, or supplies of the class or kind to be used or the articles, materials, or supplies from which they are manufactured are not mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case may be, in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available commercial quantities and of a satisfactory quality.
Page 227 - ... 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 67 - ... supplies as have been mined or produced in the United States, and only such manufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been manufactured in the United States substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case may be, in the United States, shall be acquired for public use.
Page 67 - Interest, or the cost to be unreasonable, only such unmanufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been mined or produced In the United States, and only such manufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been manufactured in the United States...
Page 200 - Department contract entered into in the form of costplus-a-fixed-fee, shall not exceed 7 per centum of the estimated cost of the contract (exclusive of the fee as determined by the Secretary of the Navy or the Secretary of War, as the case may be).
Page 27 - ... pay and allowances of such members of the Naval Reserve as In the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy may be placed on temporary active duty for the purpose of prosecuting such work.
Page 44 - Department plans which have been in preparation for a numter of years. Each successive step has been considered necessary in order to meet each major phase of the constantly growing menace from abroad. The rapidity of events in Europe has forced us to move with approximately equal rapidity, but in doing so, we have adhered to our basic plan, and as yet we see no sound reason for departing from it. The problem has been one of timing, but that, I must admit, has often been more a question of what we...
Page 46 - SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS ALVA B. ADAMS, Colorado, Chairman CARTER GLASS, Virginia FREDERICK HALE, Maine KENNETH McKELLAR, Tennessee JOHN G. TOWNSEND, JK., Delaware CARL HAYDEN, Arizona GERALD P. NYE, North Dakota JAMES F. BYRNES, South Carolina MILLARD E.

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