Government Corporations Appropriation Bill for 1948: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 3756, an Act Making Appropriations for Government Corporations and Independent Agencies for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1948, and for Other Purposes |
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Page 37 - Directors, after consultation with the Comptroller of the Currency and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...
Page 201 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to promote the general welfare of the Nation by employing its funds and credit, as provided in this Act, to assist the several States and their political subdivisions to alleviate present and recurring unemployment and to remedy the unsafe and insanitary housing conditions and the acute shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings for families of low income...
Page 569 - States in guiding and controlling the extent, sequence, and nature of development that may be equitably and economically advanced through the expenditure of public funds, or through the guidance or control of public authority, all for the general purpose of fostering an orderly and proper physical, economic, and social development...
Page 568 - Authority— a corporation clothed with the power of government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise. It should be charged with the broadest duty of planning for the proper use, conservation and development of the natural resources of the Tennessee River drainage basin and its adjoining territory for the general social and economic welfare of the nation.
Page 624 - The amount so paid for any year upon any such property shall not exceed the taxes that would be paid to the State or subdivision, as the case may be, upon such property if it were not exempt from taxation thereby.
Page 569 - Tennessee drainage basin and adjoining territory in conformity with said general purposes (1) the maximum amount of flood control; (2) the maximum development of said Tennessee River for navigation purposes; (3) the maximum generation of electric power consistent " flood control and navigation...
Page 203 - Authority shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the Authority, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof.
Page 491 - Dairymen's Cooperative Sales Association, 451 Century Building, Pittsburgh 22, Pa. Dairymen's League Cooperative Association, Inc., 11 West Forty-second Street, New York 18, NY Denver Milk Producers, Inc., 945 Eleventh Street, Denver 4, Colo.
Page 198 - ... the faith of the United States is solemnly pledged to the payment in coin, or its equivalent of all the obligations of the United States...
Page 143 - ... and vouchers approved by the Administrator in connection with such financial transactions, shall be final and conclusive upon all officers of the Government...