Transfer of Public Works Functions: Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 8127, a Bill to Provide for the Transfer to the Department of the Interior, of the Public-works Functions of the Federal Government and for Other Purposes, Volumer 1-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1928 |
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