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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activities administration Alaska Alaska Railroad American Architect architectural Army engineers ASHBURN Assistant Secretary Bureau of Public Canal Capitol CHAIRMAN charge Chief of Engineers civil engineers civilian engineers COCHRAN of Missouri Colonel Commerce Commission committee Congress construction contract contractors coordination Corps of Engineers cost DALLINGER Department of Agriculture department of public district engineer division dredge duties economy efficiency employees engi Engineer Corps engineer officers Engineering Society Federal Government flood functions HAMMER handle highway improvement Inland Waterways Corporation interest Interior Department JACOBSTEIN JADWIN MACDONALD matter ment military Mississippi River Mississippi River Commission Navy neers operation organization Panama Canal present President problems projects public buildings Public Roads question railroads Reclamation reorganization river and harbor Secretary of War statement SUMMERALL supervision Survey TAYLOR technical thing tion transfer United United States Army War Department West Point
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