Closing of Veterans' Administration Facilities: Hearings Before the Independent Offices Subcommitte of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session ... April 9, 1965

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965 - 115 pages

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Page 29 - ... conduct research and support scientific activities overseas including programs and projects of scientific cooperation between the United States and other countries such as coordinated research...
Page 12 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 14 - Agriculture and paid in the manner hereinbefore provided, in the proportion which the rural population of each State bears to the total rural population of all the States as determined by the next preceding Federal census...
Page 36 - I hereby certify, that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of a resolution adopted...
Page 20 - ... and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States or territories.
Page 19 - ... may cooperate with any department or agency of the Government, any State, Territory, District, or possession, or department, agency or political subdivision thereof, or any person; and shall have the power to appoint, remove, and fix the compensation of such officers and employees, not in conflict with existing law, and make such expenditures for rent outside the District of Columbia...
Page 34 - To conduct surveys, investigations, and research relating to the character of soil erosion and the preventive and control measures needed, to publish the results of such surveys, investigations, or research, and to disseminate information...
Page 9 - ... without performance or other bonds, and without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (41 USC 5) ; (C) to make advance, progress, and other payments which the Commission deems necessary under this Act without regard to the provisions of section 3648 of the Revised...
Page 14 - State; 2. Not less than 52 per centum of such sums shall be allotted to each State, as follows: One-half in an amount which bears the same ratio to the total amount to be allotted as the rural population of the State bears to the total rural population of all the States as determined by the last preceding decennial census current at the time each such additional sum is first appropriated...
Page 432 - Languages and dialects are not so carefully partitioned from each other in the speakers' heads that the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing.

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