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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 88 -APR. 26, 1939 leased-line telephone service at or connecting any post, camp, canton- ment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, excepting the local telephone service for the various bureaus of the War Department in the District of Columbia, and toll messages pertaining to the office of the Secretary of War; electric time service; the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment, and their operation at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, including payment for official individual telegraph messages transmitted over commercial lines; electrical installations and maintenance thereof at military posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army, fire control and direction apparatus, and material for Field Artillery; salaries of civilian employees, including those necessary as instructors at voca- tional schools; supplies, general repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with the collecting and transmitting of infor- mation for the Army by telegraph or otherwise; experimental inves- tigation, research, purchase, and development, or improvements in apparatus, and maintenance of signaling and accessories thereto, including machines, instruments, and other equipment for laboratory and repair purposes; lease, alteration, and repair of such buildings required for storing or guarding Signal Corps supplies, equipment, and personnel when not otherwise provided for, including the land therefor, the introduction of water, electric light and power, sewer- age, grading, roads and walks, and other equipment required, $7,828,804, of which $1,490,071 shall be available immediately for the objects embraced by this paragraph, including the employment of persons and means at the seat of government and elsewhere. AIM CORPS AIR CORPS, ARMY For creating, maintaining, and operating at established flying schools and balloon schools courses of instruction for officers, students, and enlisted men, including cost of equipment and supplies necessary for instruction, purchase of tools, equipment, materials, machines, textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and materials for theoretical and practical instruction; for maintenance, repair, storage, and operation of airships, war bal- loons, and other aerial machines, including instruments, materials, gas plants, hangars, and repair shops, and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction, or equip- ment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and equip- ment connected therewith and the establishment of landing and take- off runways; for purchase of supplies for securing, developing, print- ing, and reproducing photographs in connection with aerial photog- raphy; improvement, equipment, maintenance, and operation of plants for testing and experimental work, and procuring and intro- ducing water, electric light and power, gas, and sewerage, including maintenance, operation, and repair of such utilities at such plants, for the procurement of helium gas; for travel of officers of the Air Corps by air in connection with the administration of this appropria- tion, including the transportation of new aircraft from factory to first destination; salaries and wages of civilian employees as may be necessary; transportation of materials in connection with consolida- tion of Air Corps activities; experimental investigations and pur- chase and development of new types of airplanes, autogiros, and balloons, accessories thereto, and aviation engines, including plans, drawings, and specifications thereof; for the purchase, manufacture, and construction of airplanes and balloons, including instruments 605 Exceptions. Rental of lines, etc. Electrical installa- tions. Civilian employees. Experimental inves- tigation, etc. Amount available immediately. Instruction, etc., expenses. Post, p. 995. Aircraft operation, etc. Runways. Helium gas. Civilian employees. Development of new types of aircraft. Purchase, construe- tion, etc., of aircraft.

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