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Agencies reporting 10-19 percent of funds for research— Con. 

 Treasury Department : 



Office of General Counsel. 

 War Department : 

 Signal Corps. 

 Department of Justice: 

 Bureau of Prisons, 

 Department of the Navy : 



Bureau of Engineering. 

 Department of the Interior: 

 Division of Grazing. 

 Bureau of Reclamation. 

 Government of the Virgin Islands. 

 Department of Agriculture: 



Bureau of Biological Survey. 

 Forest Service. 

 Weather Bureau. 

 Department of Labor : 



U. S. Employment Service. 

 Independent Agencies: 



Federal Trade Commission. 



Agencies reporting 1-9 percent of funds for research 36 



Department of State: 



Division of Par Eastern Affairs. 

 Division of European Affairs. 

 Passport Division. 

 Treasury Department : 



Bureau of Internal Revenue. 

 War Department: 

 Air Corps. 



Office of the Chief of Engineers. 

 Medical Department. 

 Ordnance Department. 

 Coast Artillery. 

 Navy Department : 



Bureau of Construction and Repair. 

 Bureau of Ordnance. 

 Bureau of Aeronautics. 

 Department of the Interior: 

 Bureau of Indian Affairs. 

 St. Elizabeths Hospital. 

 Department of Agriculture: 



Bureau of Animal Industry. 

 Commodity Exchange Administration. 

 Extension Service. 

 Food and Drug Administration. 



Land Utilization and Retirement of Submarginal Lands. 

 Soil Conservation Service. 

 Department of Commerce: 

 Bureau of Air Commerce. 



National Resources Committee 



Agencies reporting 1-9 percent of funds for research — Con. 

 Independent Agencies : 



Farm Credit Administration. 

 Federal Communications Commission. 

 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

 Federal Housing Administration. 

 Federal Power Commission. 

 Interstate Commerce Commission. 

 Panama Canal. 

 Railroad Retirement Board. 

 Rural Electrification Administration. 

 Securities and Exchange Commission. 

 Social Security Board. 

 Tennessee Valley Authority. 

 U. S. Civil Service Commission. 

 U. S. Employees' Compensation Commission. 

 U. S. Maritime Commission. 

 Agencies reporting less than 1 percent of funds for research- 1 

 Treasury Department : 



Office of Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits. 

 Bureau of Customs. 

 The Coast Guard. 

 Bureau of Engraving and Printing. 

 Bureau of the Mint. 

 Bureau of Narcotics. 

 Public Debt Service. 

 War Department : 



Quartermaster Corps. 

 Department of Justice: 



Federal Bureau of Investigation. 

 Post Office Department 

 Navy Department: 



Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. 

 Department of the Interior : 



National Park Service. 

 Department of Commerce: 



Bureau of Lighthouses. 

 Department of Agriculture: 

 Bureau of Public Roads 

 Independent Agencies : 



Civilian Conservation Corps. 



Federal Home Loan Bank Board (including Home Own- 

 ers' Loan Corporation and Federal Savings and Loan 

 Insurance Corporation). 

 General Accounting Office. 

 Government Printing Office. 

 National Labor Relations Board. 

 Reconstruction Finance Corporation. 

 Veterans' Administration. 



II. FINANCING RESEARCH: PROBLEMS AND GENERALIZATIONS 



Research Appropriations 

 The Problem 



Persons responsible for research in Federal agencies 

 frequently complain that funds for carrying on re- 

 search activities are inadequate. The Bureau of the 

 Budget and Congressional appropriation committees 

 are said to look "with disfavor upon any form of 

 research. This complaint is given credence by 

 examples of the experience of particular bureaus in 



particular years. For example, in 1932, a Congress- 

 man debating on the floor of the House declared 

 that a certain research activity could be dispensed 

 with. "* * * The point I am emphasizing is this, 

 that the rocks about which these investigations have 

 been made, or are now proposed, have been here for 

 some thousands of years, yea, some millions of years, 

 and their investigation is not, therefore, a pressing 

 duty and function of the Government." 



