War Expenditures: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Expenditures in the War Department, House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, First[-third] Session, on War Expenditures. June 23, 1919

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Page 2957 - District, which may require or involve the employment of laborers or mechanics shall contain a provision that no laborer or mechanic doing any part of the work contemplated by the contract, in the employ of the contractor or any sub-contractor 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 2654 - The President of the United States is hereby authorized and empowered to make, or cause to be made, such investigation as in his judgment Is necessary to determine the best, cheapest, and most available means for the production of nitrates and other products for munitions of war and useful in the manufacture of fertilizers and other useful products...
Page 2972 - ... employ of the contractor or any sub-contractor 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...
Page 2567 - The products of such plants shall be used by the President for military and naval purposes to the extent that he may deem necessary, and any surplus which he shall determine is not required shall be sold and disposed of by him under such regulations as he may prescribe.
Page 2759 - Drawings and Specifications, issue additional instructions, require additional work or direct the omission of work previously ordered, and the provisions of this contract shall apply to all such changes, modifications and additions with the same effect as if they were embodied in the original Drawings and Specifications.
Page 2967 - 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 2972 - 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 2625 - 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 2568 - ... necessary to enable him to carry out the purposes herein specified, and to authorize and require such officers, agents, or agencies to perform any and all of the duties imposed upon him by the provisions hereof.
Page 2971 - ... work in excess of eight hours. " ' It is hereby ordered that the provisions of the act approved June 19, 1912, limiting the hours of daily service of mechanics and laborers on work under contracts to which the United States Is a party are suspended with respect to all contracts for ordnance and ordnance stores and other military supplies and material, contracts for buildings...

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