Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1918. Second Edition stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Good. xi 433 5 pages. Tabbed Sections. Tables. Forms. Index. Several sheets of lined paper bound in for note-taking. Cover has some wear and soiling including inside boards. Corners bumped with some wear. Name of previous owner inside front cover. Title page torn at bottom near spine. These Regulations address General Rules The Selective Service System Registration Classification Rules and Principles The Process of Selection Special and Exceptional Cases Induction and Mobilization Physical Examination Disbursement Forms Master List Statutes Officers and Others in the Service of the United States and Certifying Officers. Some six weeks after the United States formally entered the First World War the U.S Congress passes the Selective Service Act on May 18 1917 giving the U.S. president the power to draft soldiers. When he went before Congress on April 2 1917 to deliver his war message President Woodrow Wilson had pledged all of his nation's considerable material resources to help the Allies—France Britain Russia and Italy—defeat the Central Powers. What the Allies desperately needed however were fresh troops to relieve their exhausted men on the battlefields of the Western Front and these the U.S. was not immediately able to provide. Despite Wilson's effort to improve military preparedness over the course of 1916 at the time of Congress's war declaration the U.S. had only a small army of volunteers—some 100000 men—that was in no way trained or equipped for the kind of fighting that was going on in Europe. To remedy this situation Wilson pushed the government to adopt military conscription which he argued was the most democratic form of enlistment. To that end Congress passed the Selective Service Act which Wilson signed into law on May 18 1917. The act required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service. Within a few months some 10 million men across the country had registered in response to the military draft. The first troops of the American Expeditionary Force AEF under commander in chief General John J. Pershing began arriving on the European continent in June 1917. The majority of the new conscripts still needed to be mobilized transported and trained however and the AEF did not begin to play a substantial role in the fighting in France until nearly a year later during the late spring and summer of 1918. By the end of World War I in November 1918 some 24 million men had registered under the Selective Service Act. Of the almost 4.8 million Americans who eventually served in the war some 2.8 million had been drafted. Government Printing Office hardcover
Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office. First edition. Hard cover issue in original cloth. Published Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office 1929. 8vo. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4" vi424pp. illus. tables. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine titles tab indexed page block with all edge marbling. Spine lettering dull light wear/rub at the spine ends and tips mild age toning to the paper. Ownership name of Captain Henry Williams CC on fly leaf. A well preserved attractive copy. Very good. . Very Good. Hard. 1st. 1929. Government Printing Office unknown
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Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1978. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. iii 1267 1 pages. Illustrations. H. R. 12505 was a bill to provide for a research development and demonstration program to determine the feasibility of collecting in space solar energy to be transmitted to Earth and to generate electricity for domestic purposes. Statements were provided by Senator James Abourezk Senator Maryon Allen Oliver Boileau Boeing Garry DeLos John Deutch Department of Energy Congressman Ronnie Flippo Peter Glaser Arthur D. Little Senator Floyd Haskell Ira Hendrick Grumman Aerospace and Senator John Sparkman The Solar Power Satellite Research Development and Demonstration Program Act of 1978 would establish a program in the Department of Energy DOE to pursue research development and demonstration of solar power satellites SPS as a major source of energy. Enacting legislation for such a program at this time with the expectation of demonstrating such systems in the near future is premature. Technical environmental economic and institutional issues surrounding SPS systems have not been adequately investigated and supporting technologies such as the space shuttle and photovoltaic energy systems are years away from being useful in deploying SPS systems. Under existing legislation the DOE has initiated a SPS Concept Development and Evaluation Program to formulate a better understanding of the SPS concept. This program was begun in fiscal year 1977 and about $7.6 million has been obligated for carrying out the program through 1978. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1955. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. ix 100 p. Includes illustrations. Statistical tables. Harold E. Stassen was the Director Foreign Operations Administration when this report was submitted. This report in order to explain Moscow's objectives and actions reviewed recent developments in SOviet-bloc foreign economics activities especially it action in underdeveloped countries and its attempts at economic penetration. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
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