Urgent Deficiency Appropriations on Account of War Expenses: 1918, Hearing ... 65th Congress, 1st Session1917 - 979 pages |
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Page 103
... months , compared with the same two months of last year , is 258 per cent - two and one - half times . That is not a mere sudden and temporary rise , but it will continue . That makes it absolutely necessary that we divide Mr. Colwell's ...
... months , compared with the same two months of last year , is 258 per cent - two and one - half times . That is not a mere sudden and temporary rise , but it will continue . That makes it absolutely necessary that we divide Mr. Colwell's ...
Page 104
... months of this year increased exactly 40 per cent over the number in the first six months of last year . That is true without particular reference to last year . If we go back over four or five years and average it , it is exactly a 40 ...
... months of this year increased exactly 40 per cent over the number in the first six months of last year . That is true without particular reference to last year . If we go back over four or five years and average it , it is exactly a 40 ...
Page 108
... months to get all the details worked out , and as fast as they were worked out we immediately let contracts . In the meantime these price increases kept up and we have had to account for them , and will have to ac- count for them until ...
... months to get all the details worked out , and as fast as they were worked out we immediately let contracts . In the meantime these price increases kept up and we have had to account for them , and will have to ac- count for them until ...
Page 117
... month . We have 3,250 patients , and we are full . If you are going to increase the military force by approximately ... months or not , I do not know . I do not want to build these structures until they are necessary . My idea is not to ...
... month . We have 3,250 patients , and we are full . If you are going to increase the military force by approximately ... months or not , I do not know . I do not want to build these structures until they are necessary . My idea is not to ...
Page 121
... months after the expiration of the fiscal year , and the cases are still continuing to pour in at a very heavy rate . The CHAIRMAN . Is the payment of these indemnity claims URGENT DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS , 1918 . 121.
... months after the expiration of the fiscal year , and the cases are still continuing to pour in at a very heavy rate . The CHAIRMAN . Is the payment of these indemnity claims URGENT DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS , 1918 . 121.
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additional Admiral GRIFFIN Admiral HARRIS ammunition amount appropriation Army Arsenal artillery asking authority barracks bill BRETT building bureau BYRNS camps CANNON Capt cent CHAIRMAN clerks committee Congress construction Contracting Officer contractor Corps cost cotton Council of National court CROZIER DALY Department depot district employees enlisted equipment estimate expenditure expenses facilities figures fiscal Frankford Arsenal funds furnish GILLETT going Government guns hospital increase interposing Island July JULY 16 Kent Island labor Laguna district land Lieut LITTELL machine manufacture MARLATT material MCCAIN ment months National Guard Navy Navy Department necessary Ordnance paid plant purchase purpose Quartermaster Quartermaster Corps quarters railroad repair rifles Sandy Hook SCOFIELD Secretary of War Secretary REDFIELD SHARPE SHERLEY ships SISSON statement station storage submitted supply thing tion transportation Treasury troops United War Department Watervliet Arsenal