Box 49

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning legislation brought before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors including the Bear River Dam, Winyah Bay Project, Shem Creek, Congaree River Navigation Project, Edisto River, Buckingham Landing Dam, National Rivers and Harbors Congress, Yadkin Pee Dee flood control, Jefferys Creek, boat basin in Beaufort, Santee-Congaree project, Cooper River improvements, Kennewick Irrigation Project, Murrell's Inlet, Savannah River Soil Conservation District, Neches River (Texas),...

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Senate hearings concerning the Santee-Congaree, War Department Civil Functions Appropriations Bill 1947, and the Shipyard River.

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Correspondence concerning rural electrification and the creation of transmission lines.

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Correspondence concerning legislation (S. 1850) to establish a National Science Foundation.

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Correspondence primarily concerned with legislation (the Murray-Wagner-Dingle Bill) to institute government health insurance. Constituents on the whole vigorously opposed the measure.

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Correspondence concerning legislation that would provide for a Federal two-year statute of limitations on suits.

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Correspondence concerning surplus federal property legislation including army equipment to support the school lunch program, the designation of the State Department as the disposal agency for surplus property outside the continental United States, reclamation of land, equipment for the coast guard, and providing veterans with the highest priority for the purchase of surplus properties.

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Correspondence concerning assorted tax legislation including tariffs, life insurance premiums, exemptions, oleomargarine, co-operatives, income tax, and annuities.