Departments of State, Justice, Commerce and the Judiciary Appropriations for 1951: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session, Making Appropriations ... for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1951, Part 1

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Page 1559 - ... in scientific investigations, engineering, manufacturing, commerce, and educational institutions with the standards adopted or recognized by the Government, the construction, when necessary, of standards, their multiples and subdivisions, the testing and calibration of standard measuring apparatus; the solution of problems which arise in connection with standards; the determination of physical constants and the properties of materials, when such data are of great importance to scientific or manufacturing...
Page 1472 - ... the need of each such air carrier for compensation for the transportation of mail sufficient to insure the performance of such service, and, together with all other revenue of the air carrier, to enable such air carrier under honest, economical, and efficient management, to maintain and continue the development of air transportation to the extent and of the character and quality required for the commerce of the United States, the Postal Service, and the national defense.
Page 1476 - Authority hereunder fixing a fair and reasonable rate of compensation for the transportation of mail by aircraft...
Page 1385 - Notwithstanding the provisions of section 6 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 555...
Page 1179 - A realistic answer must be based on a study of all phases of highway financing, including a study of the costs of completing the several systems of highways, made by the Bureau of Public Roads in cooperation with the State highway departments and local units of government.
Page 1386 - ... financing studies, research, instruction, and other educational activities of or for American citizens in schools and institutions of higher learning located in such foreign country, or of the citizens of such foreign country in American schools and institutions of higher learning located outside...
Page 1379 - All printing, binding, and blank-book work for Congress, the Executive Office, the Judiciary, other than the Supreme Court of the United States, and every executive department, independent office and establishment of the Government...
Page 1559 - To develop methods of testing and standardizing machines, motors, tools, measuring instruments, and other apparatus and devices used in mechanical, hydraulic, and aeronautic engineering; for the comparative study of types of apparatus and methods of operation, and for the establishment of standards of performance; for the accurate determination of fundamental physical constants involved in the proper execution of this work; and for the scientific experiments and investigations needed in solving the...
Page 1707 - In carrying out the provisions of this Act it shall be the duty of the Secretary to utilize, to the maximum extent practicable, the services and facilities of private agencies, including existing American press, publishing, radio, motion picture, and other agencies, through contractual arrangements or otherwise.
Page 1476 - ... consideration and determination of all the important questions relative to and growing out of the regulation and operation of commercial air transportation. There is no question that the facts are not now known. In his appearance here before your committee on April 12, Chairman O'Connell said (Tr. 154): We are not in a position...

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