Emergency Relief Appropriation: Hearing Before the Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations in Charge of Deficiency Appropriations. Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session. H.J. Res. 117U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935 - 48 pages |
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40-hour week additional air-mail Alaska ALDRICH amount annual appropriation for 1936 approximately ARNOLD asking Assistant Postmaster average basis BETTERLY bids BIEDEN BIEDENWEG bill BRANCH Budget Bureau BURKE CADY carriers cents Chairman charge CISLER City clerks Congress consolidation contract contractor CORNWELL cost delivery division DONALDSON EILENBERGER employees equipment estimate for 1936 expenditures expenses Federal buildings figures fiscal year 1936 funds furnish Government grade increase inspectors Interstate Commerce Commission investigation July June 30 KELLY LAMIELL leases LUDLOW MAGUE Mail Service MCALLISTER MCLEOD ment miles money orders months O'NEAL operation PARKMAN percent personnel Post Office Department Postal Savings Postal Service public buildings purchase PURDUM quarters Railway Mail Service reduction regular relief revenue rural Rural Delivery Service salaries SLATTERY stamps star routes statement substitutes supplies TABER tion transportation Treasury trucks twine
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