Minimun Wages in Certain Territories, Possessions, and Overseas Areas of the United States

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Página 381 - Make any profit? Mr. RUNNESTRAND. We don't call it profit, but under the statutory formula which sets up the tolls, and our other obligations, we are required to meet our costs. You never hit them right on the nose. We have always hit them in the black, so far. I am speaking of the last several years, since the reorganization in 1951. The net operating margin has varied from year to year ; but it's been substantial enough, largely because of the record traffic of the last several years through the...
Página 462 - Chair at this time, the committee will stand adjourned until the call of the Chair. (Whereupon, at...
Página 467 - We have also pointed out that it is a matter of statutory interpretation as to whether or not statutes are effective beyond the limits of national sovereignty. It depends upon the purpose of the statute. Where as here the purpose is to regulate labor relations in an area vital to our national life, it seems reasonable to interpret its provisions to have force where the nation has sole power, rather than to limit the coverage to sovereignty. Such an interpretation is consonant with the Administrator's...
Página 450 - Governor of the Canal Zone and President of the Panama Canal Company. I am accompained by the Secretary of the Company, Mr.
Página 383 - Colonel ARNOLD. To answer your first question, I think it might be well to put in the record this list of current contracts, including all the short forms — if you'd like to have it, Mr. Chairman. Mr. ELLIOTT. Yes, we'd like to have it; and without objection, the List of Current Contracts (dated March 13, 1956) will become a part of the record at this point. (The list referred to is as follows :) List of current contracts * See footnotes, p.
Página 467 - ... necessarily imply sovereignty, and concluded as a matter of interpretation of the legislative history of the Fair Labor Standards Act that the leased bases, not in existence at the time the Act was passed, were to be included as "possessions" in the sense in which that word was used in that statute. The statutory language and the legislative record relating to the ambit of the Federal Tort Claims Act differ entirely from those pertinent to the Fair Labor Standards Act...
Página 478 - Resolved, That the two delegates who are scheduled to leave for Washington be and they are hereby directed to present the views and interest of the people of Guam and to take the necessary action to strongly oppose the passage of such...
Página 466 - I shall ask that his reply appear in the record at this point. (The letter referred to is as follows:) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Washington, DC, May 6, 1949.
Página 467 - Neither this lack of specific reference in the legislative history to leased areas, however, nor the fact that the particular Bermuda base was acquired after the passage of the Act seems to us decisive of its coverage. "The reach of the act is not sustained or opposed by the fact that it is sought to bring new situations under its terms.
Página 494 - The development has been such that atomic weapons have virtually achieved conventional status within our armed services. In the United States, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marine Corps are all capable of putting this weapon to military use.

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