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 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 475-JULY 2, 1942 (either by classes or by individuals) of less than college grade in private vocational schools (regardless of tax liability) and in other private facilities where equipment for training is available, including not to exceed $5,000,000 for payment to such agencies for rental of additional space found necessary by the Commissioner for carrying out the approved plans, $94,000,000. (2) For the cost of short courses of college grade provided by degree-granting colleges and universities pursuant to plans submitted by them and approved by the Commissioner, which plans shall be for courses designed to meet the shortage of engineers, chemists, physicists, and production supervisors in fields essential to the national defense, and such plans may provide for regional coordination of the defense training program of the participating colleges and uni- versities, $30,000,000: Provided, That only colleges and universities which operate under charters which exempt their educational prop- erty from taxation and public degree-granting educational institu- tions shall be eligible to receive funds herefrom: Provided further, That not to exceed 20 per centum of the amount allotted to any school shall be allotted to it for expenditure for purchase and rental of additional equipment and leasing of additional space found by the Commissioner necessary to carry out its approved plan. (3) For the cost of vocational courses of less than college grade and related instruction provided by such agencies for out-of-school rural persons, who have attained the age of seventeen and who, if unemployed, have filed a registration card with a public employment office, and for nonrural persons who otherwise meet the above require- ments, and whose training is not feasible under subdivisions (1) and (2) hereof, such courses and instruction to be provided pursuant to plans submitted by such agencies and approved by the Commissioner, and for the cost of such vocational courses in the production of farm commodities and in the repair, operation, and construction of farm machinery and equipment (to be approved by the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission) as may be necessary to meet the needs of farmers in obtaining the production goals of those farm com- modities designated from time to time in the farm defense program and promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture, $15,000,000, of which not to exceed 20 per centum shall be available for payment to such agencies for purchase and rental of equipment and rental of space found necessary by the Commissioner for carrying out the approved plans. Visual aids for war training (national defense): For all necessary expenses of the Office of Education in procuring and making avail- able, for reproduction and use, visual aid instructional units, con- sisting of motion-picture films, lantern slides, slide films, and film loops, for training in occupations essential to the war effort (each such occupation and instructional unit to be approved by the Chair- man of the War Manpower Commission), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; travel expenses; print- ing and binding; and purchase and exchange of office and other equipment, $1,000,000, of which amount not to exceed $10,000 may be transferred to appropriations for salaries and miscellaneous expenses in the office of the Administrator. Salaries and expenses (national defense): For all general admin- istrative expenses necessary to enable the Office of Education to carry out the foregoing program of education and training of defense work- ers, including personal services in the District of Columbia and else- where, purchase and exchange of equipment, traveling expenses, printing and binding, and not to exceed $10,000 for the payment of actual transportation expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu 579 Short courses of college grade. Provios. Eligibility Additional equip- ment, etc. Rural and nonrural persons. Vocational courses.

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