Minerals, Lands, and Geology for the Common Defence and General Welfare: 1904-1939U.S. Geological Survey, 1986 |
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75th Congress administration Agriculture Alaska American annual appropriation Basin began bill Bureau of Mines California Chief Geologist coal lands Colorado Colorado River Commission Committee conservation continued cooperative funds David White Department deposits Director district Division Economic Geology Emmons Engineers Federal field fiscal forest fuel Geologic Branch geologic map Geological Society Geological Survey Bulletin George Otis Smith Government ground water ground-water Hoover House Ibid increased industry Interior investigations irrigation Land Classification leasing Leith manganese Mendenhall metals Mexico mineral mineral resources Nevada oil and gas percent potash President problems production public lands Reclamation recommended reconnaissance region reserves River Roosevelt scientific Secretary Section Senate Service Society of America square miles stream gaging Survey's Taft Territory of Hawaii Theodore Roosevelt tion topographic mapping topographic surveys U.S. Congress U.S. Geological Survey United Utah Valley Walcott Waldemar Lindgren Washington Water Resources Branch water supply
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Page 237 - If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Page 179 - Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.
Page 198 - In general, to stimulate research in the mathematical, physical and biological sciences, and in the application of these sciences to engineering, agriculture, medicine and other useful arts, with the object of increasing knowledge, of strengthening the national defense, and of contributing in other ways to the public welfare.
Page 337 - To Improve the navigability and to provide for the flood control of the Tennessee River; to provide for reforestation and the proper use of marginal lands In the Tennessee Valley; to provide for the agricultural and industrial development of said valley; to provide for the national defense by the creation of a corporation for the operation of Government properties at and near Muscle Shoals In the State of Alabama, and for other purposes.
Page 416 - An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers...
Page 174 - Defense to supervise and direct investigations and make recommendations to the President and the heads of executive departments as to the location of railroads with reference to the frontier of the United States so as to render possible expeditious concentration of troops and supplies to points of defense...
Page 179 - Once lead this people into war," he said, "and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.
Page 221 - Department to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce, the mining, manufacturing, shipping, and fishery industries, the labor interests, and the transportation facilities of the United States...
Page 179 - It will involve the utmost practicable cooperation in counsel and action with the governments now at war with Germany, and, as incident to that, the extension to those governments of the most liberal financial credits, in order that our resources may so far as possible be added to theirs. It will involve the organization and mobilization of all the material resources of the country to supply the materials of war and serve the incidental needs of the nation in the most abundant and yet the most economical...
Page 188 - It is imperatively necessary that the consideration of the full use of the water power of the country and also the consideration of the systematic and yet economical development of such of the natural resources of the country as are still under the control of the federal government should be immediately resumed and affirmatively and constructively dealt with at the earliest possible moment.