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 77TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 629-OCT. 26, 1942 be so administered during the fiscal year 1943 as to constitute the total amount that will be furnished to such Administration during such fiscal year for the purposes set forth in this paragraph and": Provided, That any reapportionment of the appropriation heretofore granted to the Office of Price Administration for the fiscal year 1943 shall be made in such manner as to restrict the total obligations for such Administration for such fiscal year to not more than $140,000,000, including expenses of administration of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, to aid in preventing inflation, and for other purposes", approved October 2, 1942 (Public Law 729), and the Act entitled "An Act to aid in preventing inflation, to stabilize the rents of real property, and for other purposes", approved -, 1942. OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION For an additional amount for the Office for Emergency Manage- ment, fiscal year 1943, including the objects specified in paragraph 1 and subject to the provisions in subparagraphs (a), (b), and (c) of paragraph 13 under this head in the First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1943, as follows: Office of War Information: For the Office of War Information, $25,000,000, including the employment of a Director and Associate Director at not exceeding $12,000 and $10,000 per annum, respec- tively; not to exceed $25,000 for the temporary employment in the United States of persons by contract or otherwise without regard to the civil service and classification laws; employment of aliens; employment of persons outside the continental limits of the United States without regard to the provisions of law applicable to the employment and compensation of officers and employees of the United States; traveling expenses outside the continental limits of the United States without regard to the Standardized Government Travel Regu- lations and the Subsistence Expense Act and section 901 of the Act of June 29, 1936 (49 Stat. 2015); purchase of radio time and the purchase or rental of facilities for broadcast purposes; advertising in foreign newspapers; printing and binding, including printing and binding outside the continental limits of the United States without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (40 Stat. 1270): rental of news-reporting services; purchase or rental and operation of photographic, reproduction, printing, and duplicating machines, equipment and devices; payment to employees with official head- quarters located outside the continental limits of the United States, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the President, of living and quarters allowances (including heat, fuel, and light); exchange of funds without regard to section 3651, Revised Statutes; acquisi- tion, production, and free distribution of publications, phonograph records, radio transcriptions, radio-receiving sets, motion-picture films, photographs and pictures, educational materials, and such other items as the Director may deem necessary to carry out the program of the Office of War Information; such gratuitous expenses of travel and subsistence as the Director deems advisable in the fields of educa- tion, travel, radio, press, and cinema; not to exceed $145,000 for enter- tainment of officials of other countries; payment of the United States share of the expenses of the maintenance, in cooperation with any other of the United Nations, of an organization designed to receive and disseminate information relative to the prosecution of the war. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3679,. Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 665), the Office of War Information is authorized in making contracts for the use of international short-wave radio stations and facilities, to agree on behalf of the United States to indemnify the 56 STAT.] Ante, pp. 707, 710. Temporary employ- ment. 44 Stat. 688 . 5U. .C.§821;46 U. S. C.§ 1241. Ante, p. 39. Printing and bind- ing. 44U.S.C.I 4,111. Exchange of funds. 31 U. S.C. 543. Travel and sub- sistence. Cooperation with any other of United Nations. Contracts for nas d international short- wave radio stations Indemnifiation at ownrs and operato 997 Proviso. Reapportionmentof prior appropriation. Ante, p. 711. Ante, p. 765. H. R. 7695, 77th Cong.

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