Box 4: Appropriations (1950) -- Business and Industry (1959).
F 1: Appropriations (1950-1951).
Correspondence re: H.R. 7786: Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951; copy of Public Law 81-759 (H.R. 7786); funding for river basin studies; State Department appropriations for Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission; copy of H.R. 3790: Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952; Conference Report on H.R. 3790; amendment relating to continuing fund for Southeastern Power Administration; Short Amendment; Keating Amendment; commutation of Choctaw treaty obligation; statement by Kerr re appropriations for Children's Bureau of the Federal Security Agency. Correspondents include: American Federation of Government Employees; Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.; Irving M. Ives; Homer E. Capehart; Kenneth McKellar; John E. Rankin.
F 2: Appropriations (1952).
American Printing House for the Blind; reduction of federal spending; Hoover Report; statement of Kerr before Senate Appropriations Committee re: Bureau of Indian Affairs; Bureau of Railroad Safety; Bureau of Locomotive Inspection; Independent Offices Appropriations Act; American Airlines subsidy; Defense Production Act; Federal National Mortgage Association; church hospitals in the District of Columbia; gun training; Point Four; rider on H.R. 7289, the Interior Department's appropriation bill. Correspondents include: Homer Ferguson; Olin D. Johnston; U.S. Tariff Commission; National Farmers Union.
F 3: Appropriations (1953-1954).
House and Senate Reports on H.R. 4828: Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954; House and Senate Reports on H.R. 5246: Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare, and related independent agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954; statement of Kerr before Senate Appropriations Committee in support of vocational education; Hill-Burton hospital program; annuities; Midwest City Schools; Administrative Expense Act; water line between Fort Gibson Dam and Muskogee; defense; ROTC; Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital; public health; Library of Congress; airport construction; "The Record of the 83rd Congress on Appropriations"; Conference and Senate Reports on H. R. 8367: Making appropriations for civil functions administered by the Department of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955; Senate Report on H. R. 9447: Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare, and related independent agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955; Senate Report on H. R. 9936: Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955. Correspondents include: Oscar V. Rose; William Parrish; Styles Bridges.
F 4: Appropriations (1955).
Civil functions; research for mental health; Altus Air Force Base Officers' Club; White House Educational Conference; tuberculosis; international exchange programs; correspondence re: H.R. 6042: Department of Defense appropriations; copy of H. R. 5046: Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956; House Report on H.R. 5046; Senate Report on H. R. 5085: Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956; copy of H.R. 7278: Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956; Senate Report on H.R. 7278. Correspondents include: Oliver Hodge; Raymond Gary.
F 5: Appropriations (1956-1958).
Roads in Ouachita National Forest; U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; Department of Defense; Bureau of Indian Affairs; Arkansas River projects; soil and water conservation; Post Office Department; Bureau of Mines Experiment Station in Bartlesville; Washita River projects; Medicare. Correspondents include: Paul Endacott; Carl Hayden; Richard B. Russell; Dennis Chavez; Clarence Cannon; Allen J. Ellender; Michael Kirwan.
F 6: Appropriations (1959-1962).
Tennessee Valley Authority; flood control; soil and water conservation; medical research; overall budget; Bureau of Mines Experiment Station in Bartlesville; pollution surveys; loans for Indians; education; Arkansas River and Washita River projects; Department of Defense; House members' staffs; Independent Offices Appropriation Bill; research in educational processes; National Institute of Health; watershed projects; Veterans Administration medical program; Hanford Reactor project; proxy authorization from Richard Neuberger; House Report on H.R. 7509: Making appropriations for civil functions administered by the Department of the Army, certain agencies of the Department of the Interior, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1960; Conference Report on H.R. 7444: Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and related agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1962; Senate Report on H. R. 9076: Making appropriations for Civil Functions administered by the Department of the Army, certain agencies of the Department of the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Tennessee Valley Authority and certain study commissions, for the Fiscal year ending June 30, 1962; accusation by Lewis Strauss that Clarence Cannon had altered records of the House Appropriations Committee. Correspondents include: John Fogarty; Harry J. W. Belvin; Oscar V. Rose; Dennis Chavez; Gordon Allott; Oliver Willham; National Farmers Union; Richard B. Russell; John Taber.
F 7: Architect of the Capitol (1948-1950, 1953).
Proposed remodeling of the White House; copy of S. Con. Res. 14, to provide a room with facilities for prayer and meditation; copy of H. R. 5491, a bill to provide for national recognition of Adelaide Johnson, the sculptor of the Woman's Monument, located in the Capitol. Correspondents include: Mike Monroney; Victor Wickersham; Brooks Hays.
F 8: Architect of the Capitol (1957-1958).
Nominations of former senators for portraits in the Senate Reception Room; proposed extension of the East Front of the Capitol. Correspondents include: John F. Kennedy.
F 9: Arkansas River Compact (1955).
Copies of H.R. 208 and S. 731: Granting the consent of Congress to the states of Arkansas and Oklahoma, to negotiate and enter into a compact relating to their interests in, and the apportionment of, the waters of the Arkansas River and its tributaries as they affect such states; House Report.
F 10: Armed Services (1950-1954, 1956-1962).
Copy of S. 3815: Authorizing a Congressional Medal of Honor to Don Dunn; Public law created from H.R. 4914: To authorize certain construction at military and naval installations; House and Senate Reports on H. R. 7268: Making appropriations for civil functions administered by the Department of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953; House, Senate, and Conference Reports on H.R. 5376: Making appropriations for civil functions administered by the Department of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954; Senate and Conference Reports on H.R. 8367: Making appropriations for civil functions administered by the Department of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955; U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; Tinker Air Force Base; defense planning; Capehart housing; civil defense. Copy of report of the Committee on Armed Services re "Operation of Article VII, NATO Status of Forces Treaty." Correspondents include: Carl Hayden; Richard B. Russell; Stuart Symington; J. Caleb Boggs.
F 11: Atomic Energy (n.d., 1950, 1953).
Hydrogen bomb data; Public Affairs Abstracts on the hydrogen bomb prepared by the Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service; proposed alternate capital near Golden, Colorado; atomic arms race; summary of press articles; proposed constitutional amendment re: treaty-making powers; invitation for members of Congress to attend atomic tests at Indian Springs Air Force Base in Nevada. Correspondents include: W. Sterling Cole; Bourke B. Hickenlooper; Gordon Dean.
F 12: Atomic Energy (1954).
Correspondence and other materials re: Atomic Energy Bill; atomic bomb testing; Dixon-Yates contract. Correspondents include: Herbert H. Lehman; National Rural Electric Cooperative Association; Oklahoma Farmers Union; Oklahoma Statewide Electric Cooperative; Stuart Symington; A. Willis Robertson.
F 13: Atomic Energy, Legislation (1954).
Copy of S. 3690: To amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1946; public law crated from H.R. 9757: To amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1946; House, Senate, and Conference Reports.
F 14: Atomic Energy (1955-1956).
Dixon-Yates contract, Geiger counters; Tennessee Valley Authority; construction of nuclear power plants. Correspondents include: National Association of Electric Companies; National Coal Association; Albert Gore.
F 15: Atomic Energy (1957-1962).
Disarmament Agency for World Peace and Security; Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; indemnification responsibilities and tort liability of University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University re: their contracts with the Atomic Energy Commission; tax amortization certificates for uranium milling facilities; atomic testing in Alaska. Correspondents include: Carl T. Durham; Clinton P. Anderson; George Lynn Cross; Oliver Willham.
F 16: Banking (1950, 1952-1959, 1961-1962).
Gold standard for Russian ruble and American dollar; Bank Holding Company Act; Federal Credit Union Insurance Act; Federal National Mortgage Association; Federal Intermediate Credit Banks; Production Credit Corporation; Government Corporation Control Act; dual status of banks and other agencies; stand-by controls bill; GI loans; Residence AtEase (At Ease) Association; control and regulation of bank holding companies; revenue bonds; state development credit corporations; bank mergers; Finance Disclosure Bill; inflation; development loan funds; Federal Credit Union Act; Federal Deposit Insurance Act; taxation of banks and savings and loan institutions; Federal Reserve System; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; American Export Credit Guaranty Corporation; Community Facilities loan program; Distressed Area Bill; maintenance of certain reserves in gold certificates in federal reserve banks; consideration of McCurtain as depressed economic area; copy of S. 2028 re: coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the admission of Oklahoma into the Union. Correspondents include: Homer Capehart; J. W. Fulbright; A. Willis Robertson; Oklahoma Savings and Loan League; and Harry S. Truman
F 17: Basing Point Bill (1949).
Copy of S. 1008: To define the application of the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Clayton Act to certain pricing practices; Senate and Conference Reports on S. 1008; correspondence re: S. 1008; speech of Russell B. Long; remarks of Estes Kefauver in the Congressional Record; information concerning the case of Standard Oil Company v. Federal Trade Commission in U.S. Court of Appeals and U.S. Supreme Court. Correspondents include: Wright Patman; Elmer Thomas; Oklahoma Pharmaceutical Association; Petroleum Retailers Association of Oklahoma; National Congress of Petroleum Retailers.
F 18: Basing Point Bill (Jan. - Feb. 1950).
Correspondence re: S. 1008; remarks of Raymond W. Karst in the Congressional Record. Correspondents include: Petroleum Retailers Association of Oklahoma; National Association of Retail Druggists; Oklahoma Pharmaceutical Association; Estes Kefauver; Russell B. Long.
F 19: Basing Point Bill (Mar. - Aug. 1950).
Correspondence re: S. 1008. Correspondents include: National Congress of Petroleum Retailers; Russell B. Long; Petroleum Retailers Association of Oklahoma; United States Wholesale Grocers' Association; Oklahoma Retail Grocers Association; Edwin C. Johnson; National Association of Retail Druggists.
F 20: Bureau of the Census (1953, 1955, 1962).
Correspondence re: various census forms.
F 21: Business and Industry (1949-1950).
Federal Trade Commission; capital expenditures; allegations against Kaiser-Frazer Corporation; automotive excise taxes; Senate and House Small Business Committees; Defense Production Act; Oklahoma City Small Business Clinic; reports and other information concerning the Senate Select Committee on Small Business.
F 22: Business and Industry (1951).
Rent controls; National Production Authority; women in business and the professions; government work for small businesses; aluminum; steel; reports from the Senate Select Committee on Small Business; weekly reports to the committee; copy of committee hearings. Correspondents include: National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs; Johnston Murray.
F 23: Business and Industry (1952-1953).
Inventions and patents; Defense Production Act; loopholes in business tax structure; Fair Labor Standards Act exemptions; Office of Price Stabilization; agricultural commodities; Accident Prevention Act; Industrial Safety Act; fair trade practices; antitrust laws; Customs Simplification Act; proposed Committee on Consumer Interests; price controls; Small Business Mobile Unit of Navy Bureau of Ordnance; imports of oil products; regulation of maximum speed and horsepower of automobiles; insurance on bank deposits and building and loan association accounts; rubber industry; blue laws; printing of post cards and envelopes by the government; Small Business Administration; tariffs on fluorspar, lead, and zinc; Trip Leasing Bill; Davis-Bacon Act; Federal Construction Contract Bill. Correspondents include: National Congress of Petroleum Retailers; Oklahoma Retail Grocers Association; Edward J. Thye; Economic Stabilization Agency.
F 24: Business and Industry (1954).
Securities issued by railroads; establishment of standing Senate Committee on Small Business; effects of Acts of Congress on state laws; Time-Lag Bill; hardboard imports; lumber, paper, and pulp; Trade Agreements Extension Act; cemetery monuments and markers; funeral directors; quick rate bill, use of inland waterways; vending machines; Robinson-Patman Act; antitrust laws; capital gains and losses on commodities; savings and loan associations; copy of H.R. 9834: To provide for taking the federal government out of competition with private enterprise; copy of H.R. 9835: To provide for the termination of government operations which are in competition with private enterprise; Senate Report on H.R. 9835; copy of H.R. 9890: To establish a federal policy concerning the termination, limitation, or establishment of business-type operations of the government which may be conducted in competition with private enterprise. Correspondents include: Oklahoma Retail Merchants Association.
F 25: Business and Industry (Jan. - June 1955).
Bank mergers; bank holding companies; establishment of new banks; Reconstruction Finance Corporation loans; establishment of standing Senate Committee on Small Business; copy of S. Res. 16: That rule XXV of the Standing Rules of the Senate is amended by adding at the end thereof a new section; copy of H.R. 6227: To provide for the control and regulation of bank holding companies (Bank Holding Company Act). Small Business Administration loans; milk distribution; manufacture of products for the military; rubber industry; designation of banks as federal depositories; fair trade laws; antitrust laws; Robinson-Patman Act; phonovision; elimination of cumulative voting of shares of stock in the election of directors of national banking associations; testing laboratories; Home Loan Bank Board; letters from Kerr encouraging businesses to locate in Oklahoma; loss leader sales. Correspondents include: John Sparkman.
F 26: Business and Industry (July - Nov. 1955).
Bank holding companies; rubber industry; manufacture of products for the military; fluorspar; privatization of services at military installations; blue laws.
F 27: Business and Industry (1956-1959).
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Equality of Opportunity Bill; home construction; Small Business Administration loans; imported oil; textiles; natural gas; manufacture of products for the military; defense missile procurement; motion picture theaters; government-operated bakeries and laundries; retail service station operators; banking facilities at Tinker Air Force Base; Davis-Bacon Act. Correspondents include: W. P. "Bill" Atkinson; Margaret Chase Smith; John Sparkman.
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