Urgent Deficiency Appropriations on Account of War Expenses: 1918, Hearing ... 65th Congress, 1st Session1917 - 979 pages |
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Page 62
... understand it , you did not attempt to indi- cate the character of the clerical services you required , but you esti- mated that you needed 550 individuals ? Gen. MCCAIN . Yes , sir ; and I intended , if I got them , to assign them to ...
... understand it , you did not attempt to indi- cate the character of the clerical services you required , but you esti- mated that you needed 550 individuals ? Gen. MCCAIN . Yes , sir ; and I intended , if I got them , to assign them to ...
Page 69
... understand that it was a formal estimate ; that it was more in the nature of a conjecture . The CHAIRMAN . You mean that is too many ? Mr. THOMPSON . Scarcely , sir . At the present time we have on the emergency roll an aggregate of 214 ...
... understand that it was a formal estimate ; that it was more in the nature of a conjecture . The CHAIRMAN . You mean that is too many ? Mr. THOMPSON . Scarcely , sir . At the present time we have on the emergency roll an aggregate of 214 ...
Page 121
... understand is that you say you have already passed claims amounting to fifty - odd thousand dollars . Mr. BARROWS . Yes , sir . The CHAIRMAN . That will leave you about $ 170,000 , and you are asking for $ 50,000 more . Why do you ...
... understand is that you say you have already passed claims amounting to fifty - odd thousand dollars . Mr. BARROWS . Yes , sir . The CHAIRMAN . That will leave you about $ 170,000 , and you are asking for $ 50,000 more . Why do you ...
Page 141
... understand that that is not true in Texas . However , they might have a gentleman's agreement entered into by the ... understand it , under the act of 1912 , in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture , he can keep out of Texas ...
... understand that that is not true in Texas . However , they might have a gentleman's agreement entered into by the ... understand it , under the act of 1912 , in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture , he can keep out of Texas ...
Page 144
... understand it- Mr. SISSON ( interposing ) . We did not understand it and the people of Texas did not understand it . Now , do you believe that an expenditure of $ 500,000 would be ample to eleminate the pink boll weevil in that section ...
... understand it- Mr. SISSON ( interposing ) . We did not understand it and the people of Texas did not understand it . Now , do you believe that an expenditure of $ 500,000 would be ample to eleminate the pink boll weevil in that section ...
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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