Independent Offices Appropriations for 1954: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-third Congress, First Session, Parts 1-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - Executive departments |
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81st Congress Accounting Office activities actual 1953 estimate additional Administration agencies ALLDREDGE amount annual leave appropriation audit authority Average number Board building Bureau carriers Chairman claims Commissioner committee common carriers Congress contract contractual services cost COTTON Department Director District of Columbia Division employees estimate 1954 estimate expenditures Federal Power Act Federal Trade Commission field filed fiscal year 1954 functions funds GLENDENING going Government grades hearing increase industry Interstate Commerce Commission investigation JONAS Judge KERN June 30 justification matter McENTIRE ment million National National Science Foundation NORRIS COTTON Obligations incurred payments percent permanent positions personnel PHILLIPS Printing and reproduction Public Law question record reduction regulations Reimbursements Rent Stabilization request research and development revised REYNOLDS RYDER staff statement subcommittee Supplies and materials THOMAS tion United WALKER War Claims Commission Washington WATERMAN YATES
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Page 267 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto...
Page 947 - Treasury, taking into consideration the current average rate on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States...
Page 947 - The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to purchase any notes and other obligations to be issued hereunder and for such purpose he is authorized to use as a public debt transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, and the purposes for which securities may be issued under such Act, as amended, are extended to include any purchases of such notes and obligations.
Page 280 - It is hereby declared to be the national transportation policy of the Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation subject to the provisions of this Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each...
Page 268 - The Commission may provide for the publication of its reports and decisions in such form and manner as may be best adapted for public information and use, and such authorized publications shall be competent evidence of the reports and decisions of the Commission therein contained, in all Courts of the United States, and of the several States, without any further proof or authentication thereof.
Page 102 - ... director and such other personnel as may be necessary to enable the Commission to carry out its functions...
Page 282 - ... prescribe law or policy or to describe the organization, procedure, or practice requirements of any agency and includes the approval or prescription for the future of rates, wages, corporate or financial structures or reorganizations thereof, prices, facilities, appliances, services or allowances therefor or of valuations, costs, or accounting, or practices bearing upon any of the foregoing. "Rule making" means agency process for the formulation, amendment, or repeal of a rule.
Page 338 - Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution...
Page 282 - That any person, firm, corporation, or association, or any mercantile, agricultural, or manufacturing society, or any body politic or municipal organization complaining of anything done or omitted to be done by any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act in contravention of the provisions thereof...
Page 282 - Territory, at the request of such commissioner or commission, and may institute any inquiry on its own motion in the same manner and to the same effect as though complaint had been made. No complaint shall at any time be dismissed because of the absence of direct damage to the complainant.