Urgent Deficiency Appropriations on Account of War Expenses: 1918, Hearing ... 65th Congress, 1st Session1917 - 979 pages |
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Page 109
... allowed a sufficient amount of money to push the Turn- gain Arm end of the work . That was estimated to cost $ 80,000 a taile . Our figures now show that we are running about 22 per cent over the estimate . The work we have done ...
... allowed a sufficient amount of money to push the Turn- gain Arm end of the work . That was estimated to cost $ 80,000 a taile . Our figures now show that we are running about 22 per cent over the estimate . The work we have done ...
Page 112
... allowed to go off the work , but I have declined the approval of the general policy of letting those men go off that work . Mr. GILLETT . They can go off if they want to . Secretary LANE . Oh , they can resign , of course . Mr. CANNON ...
... allowed to go off the work , but I have declined the approval of the general policy of letting those men go off that work . Mr. GILLETT . They can go off if they want to . Secretary LANE . Oh , they can resign , of course . Mr. CANNON ...
Page 120
... allowed on any new grade and form of envelope should not exceed the percentage of profit , if any , accruing at the time the contract began . " It is understood , of course , that the exercise of the discretion of the Post- master ...
... allowed on any new grade and form of envelope should not exceed the percentage of profit , if any , accruing at the time the contract began . " It is understood , of course , that the exercise of the discretion of the Post- master ...
Page 157
... allowed him to come to us after many years of experience in handling export business of this character . Mr. RICHARDS . I would like to call attention to this stub . The bject of that is to prevent fraud . That is filled out by the ...
... allowed him to come to us after many years of experience in handling export business of this character . Mr. RICHARDS . I would like to call attention to this stub . The bject of that is to prevent fraud . That is filled out by the ...
Page 163
... allowed on the ground that it was not a military or naval matter . The CHAIRMAN . Have you lost those men yet ? Mr. PUTNAM . We have not a single draftsman left in our marine- engineering division , not one ; and we have appropriations ...
... allowed on the ground that it was not a military or naval matter . The CHAIRMAN . Have you lost those men yet ? Mr. PUTNAM . We have not a single draftsman left in our marine- engineering division , not one ; and we have appropriations ...
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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