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 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 1 ST SESS.-H. 145 -JUNE 26, 1943 ices in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses; supplies; services and equipment; not to exceed $1,000 for purchase and exchange of books, reports, newspapers, and periodicals; contract stenographic reporting services; purchase (not to exceed eight), maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger- carrying vehicles; not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase of evidence in connection with investigations of apparent violations of said Act, $3,100,000: Provided, That Joint Board members may use Govern- ment transportation requests when traveling in connection with their duties as Joint Board members. Not to exceed $2,500 of the appropriations herein made for the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be available for expenses, except membership fees, for attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Commission. For all printing and binding for the Interstate Commerce Com- mission, including reports in all cases proposing general changes in transportation rates and not to exceed $17,000 to print and furnish to the States at cost, report form blanks, and the receipts from such reports and blanks shall be credited to this appropriation, $150,000. Salaries and expenses, emergency: For necessary expenses, includ- ing traveling expenses, to enable the Interstate Commerce Com- mission, for the purpose of promoting the national security and defense, to adopt measures for preventing shortages of railroad equipment and congestion of traffic, and expediting the movement of cars by railroads through terminals, and related activities, $299,000. 183 Transportation re- quests. Attendance at meet- ings. Printing and bind- ing. NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS Postp.18. For necessary salaries and expenses of the National Advisory Com- mittee for Aeronautics, including contracts for personal services in the making of special investigations and reports; traveling expenses of members and employees, including not to exceed $2,500 for attend- ance upon meetings of technical and professional societies; periodicals and books of reference; equipment, .maintenance, and operation of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, the Ames Aero- nautical Laboratory, and the aircraft engine research laboratory at Cleveland, Ohio; purchase and maintenance of cafeteria equipment; maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; not to exceed $319,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia, including one Director of Aeronautical Research at not to exceed $10,000 per annum; and not to exceed $2,500 for temporary employment of consultants, at not to exceed $50 per diem, by contract or otherwise, without regard to the civil-service and classification laws; in all, $15,672,000. For all printing and binding for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, including all of its offices, laboratories, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $15,000. Construction and equipment, Langley Field, Virginia: For con- struction and equipment of additional laboratory buildings and research facilities on the United States military reservation at Lang- ley Field, Virginia, $60,000, to be available until expended. Construction and equipment: For completing construction and equipment of the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory at Moffett Field, California, $3,707,500, to remain available until expended. NATIONAL ARCHIVES Salaries and expenses: For salaries and expenses of the Archivist and the National Archives; including personal services in the District Salaries and ex- penses. Aeronautical labora- tories. Director of Aero- nautical Research. Printing and bind- ing.

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