Independent Offices Appropriations for 1953: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session, Parts 2-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952 - 1623 pages |
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activities additional Administration Admiral COCHRANE agencies amendment amount Board budget estimate building Bureau Chairman claims CLAPP CLEARY Commission Commission's Congress construction Corporation cost defense Department DRYDEN economic equipment facilities Federal Federal Trade Commission figures filed Finance fiscal year 1952 FOLEY funds going Government GRAY hearing hospital House Appropriations Committee House committee included increase independent offices appropriation Interstate Commerce Commission June 30 LARSON LAWTON loans MAHAFFIE Maritime ment million motor carriers National number of employees obligations operations passenger motor vehicles percent personnel plant present projects proposed purchase question RAMSPECK recommended record reduction requested Salaries and expenses Senator CORDON Senator ELLENDER Senator FERGUSON Senator HILL Senator MAYBANK Senator SALTONSTALL Senator THYE ships staff statement subcommittee tion United United States Senate utility vessels veterans Washington workload World War II
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Page 268 - ... developing, coordinating, and preserving a national transportation system by water, highway, and rail, as well as other means, adequate to meet the needs of the commerce of the United States, of the Postal Service, and of the national defense. All of the provisions of this Act. shall be administered and enforced with a view to carrying out the above declaration of policy.
Page 562 - Senate, (2) upon the condition that such official consult with the Attorney General and the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission not less than ten days before making any request or finding thereunder, and (3) upon the condition that such official obtain the approval of the Attorney General to any request thereunder before making the request.
Page 327 - Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution...
Page 527 - ... and subsequent fiscal years there shall be submitted in detail estimates for such necessary appropriations as are intended to be used for purchase, maintenance, repair, or operation of all motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, specifying the sums required, the public purposes for which said vehicles are intended, and the officials or employees by whom the same are to be used.
Page 405 - to improve the navigability and to provide for the flood control of the Tennessee River; to provide for reforestation and the proper use of marginal lands in the Tennessee Valley...
Page 678 - ... where the effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the acquisition, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce.
Page 161 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to promote, encourage, and develop water transportation, service, and facilities in connection with commerce of the United States, and to foster and preserve in full vigor both rail and water transportation.
Page 527 - Unless otherwise specifically provided, the maximum amount allowable during the current fiscal year in accordance with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (60 Stat.
Page 17 - ... as may be found to be reasonable and practicable, may be provided for in the contract of insurance, or from time to time by regulations.
Page 717 - It participates in the joint financial management improvement program which is conducted by the Bureau of the Budget, the General Accounting Office, and the Treasury Department in cooperation with the executive agencies.