Hearings Before the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, House of Representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, First, Second, Third, and Fourth Sessions: 1921-1923U.S. Government Printing Office, 1923 - Public buildings |
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... claims for compensation , and there is no doubt but that we will clean them up very rapidly . Over 600,000 men have applied for compensation and we are trying to get the work current so that the men who are entitled to compensa- tion ...
... claims for compensation , and there is no doubt but that we will clean them up very rapidly . Over 600,000 men have applied for compensation and we are trying to get the work current so that the men who are entitled to compensa- tion ...
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... claim about 15.000 . The census , I think , gives considerably less , but we claim we have about 15,000 people there . It could not affect the fire hazard of insurance , because it will be nearly a whole block from the building . The ...
... claim about 15.000 . The census , I think , gives considerably less , but we claim we have about 15,000 people there . It could not affect the fire hazard of insurance , because it will be nearly a whole block from the building . The ...
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... claims filed within the three months required by the act of August 25 , 1919. That act provided that claims must be filed within three months from August 25 , 1919. Some of the claimants had their claims in the mail in time to reach the ...
... claims filed within the three months required by the act of August 25 , 1919. That act provided that claims must be filed within three months from August 25 , 1919. Some of the claimants had their claims in the mail in time to reach the ...
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... claims where the date of opening bids was later than six weeks after war was declared . It would be less than that , because the bids would be asked for before that date and opened subsequently . Under that provision the claims might ...
... claims where the date of opening bids was later than six weeks after war was declared . It would be less than that , because the bids would be asked for before that date and opened subsequently . Under that provision the claims might ...
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... claims that could be filed : Those in which there had been an increase in cost of labor and material due to the war ; those where the damage of delay was occasioned by some direct act of a Government agent , as , for example , in giving ...
... claims that could be filed : Those in which there had been an increase in cost of labor and material due to the war ; those where the damage of delay was occasioned by some direct act of a Government agent , as , for example , in giving ...
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Page 50 - Resolved, That these Resolutions be spread on the minutes of...
Page 10 - ... or general medical and surgical cases, shall be in the discretion of the Director of the United States Veterans' Bureau, subject to the approval of the President : Provided, however, That the director, with the approval of the President, may utilize such suitable buildings, structures, and grounds, now owned by the United States, as may be available for...
Page 9 - Corps shall be in response to a request from the Surgeon General of the Army, the Surgeon General of the Navy, the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service...
Page 1 - Bureau to provide for the construction of additional hospital facilities and to provide medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies for persons who served in the World War, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, and the Boxer Rebellion, and are patients of the United States Veterans...
Page 13 - SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES. This contract shall be interpreted as a whole and the intent of the whole instrument, rather than the interpretation of any special clause, shall govern.
Page 3 - Hereafter the following persons only shall be entitled to the benefits of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and may be admitted thereto upon the order of a member of the board of managers...
Page 1 - That there is hereby appropriated from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of...
Page 1 - The Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury...
Page 13 - Construction, he shall have the right to submit the same to the Secretary of War, whose decision shall be final and binding upon both parties hereto.