Appropriations, Department of Commerce, 1928: Hearing Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations ... in Charge of Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Labor Appropriation Bill for 1928. Sixty-ninth Congress, Second SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1927 - 578 pages |
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ACKERMAN air navigation aircraft airways Alaska American amount appropriation asked Assistant trade beacons Budget building Bureau of Foreign Bureau of Mines Bureau of Standards Captain LAND carried CATTELL cent Chairman chief clerk coal Colonel JONES commercial attaché committee cooperation cost Department of Commerce District of Columbia division Doctor BURGESS Doctor KLEIN Domestic Commerce employees engineering equipment estimate for 1928 expenses export fiscal fish fisheries Foreign and Domestic funds Government GRIFFIN hatchery helium important increase industry interested investigations Jour laboratory leather LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Lighthouse lights MACCRACKEN manufacturers materials ment Miscellaneous Navy Nocona field O'MALLEY OLIVER operation personal services Petrolia plant problems production radio route salaries Screw Thread Secretary of Commerce ship SHREVE specifications statement station Steamboat Inspection Service supervising inspectors supply testing TINKHAM tion Total trade commissioner TURNER TYRER United vessels
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Page 236 - Act is declared unconstitutional or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby. SEC.
Page 232 - The deputy commissioner shall have power to preserve and enforce order during any such proceedings ; to issue subpoenas for, to administer oaths to, and to compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses, or the production of books, papers, documents, and other evidence, or the taking of depositions...
Page 243 - Now, in reference to the Secretary of the Treasury, subdivision (b) provides that — The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to (1) designate places in the United States at ports of entry for civil aircraft arriving in the United States from any place outside thereof and for merchandise carried on such aircraft; (2...
Page 231 - interstate commerce " shall be construed to mean commerce between any State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof ; or between points within the same State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, but through any place outside thereof, or within any Territory or possession, or the District of Columbia.
Page 234 - States from any place outside thereof and for the merchandise carried on such aircraft, by the Attorney General as a port of entry for aliens arriving on such aircraft, and by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare as a place for quarantine inspection.
Page 234 - Board, in accordance with the civil-service laws, and whose compensation shall be fixed in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. Each such veterans...
Page 398 - Interior, to conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning mining, and the preparation, treatment, and utilization of mineral substances with a view to improving health conditions, and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries...
Page 235 - aircraft" means "any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used, or designed for navigation of or flight in the air, except a parachute or other contrivance designed for such navigation but used primarily as safety equipment.
Page 240 - Congress, (1) to establish, operate, and maintain along such airways all necessary air navigation facilities except airports; and (2) to chart such airways and arrange for publication of maps of such airways, utilizing the facilities and assistance of existing agencies of the Government so far as practicable.
Page 398 - ... efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries: to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; to investigate explosives and peat; and on behalf of the Government to investigate the mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to, or for the use of, the United States, with a view to their most efficient mining, preparation, treatment, and use; and to...