Communications Satellite Legislation: Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session, on S. 2814 ... and S. 2814, Amendment ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962 - 413 pages |
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administration agencies amended appropriate areas authorized BEIRNE Bell System bill broadcast Bureau cable Chairman commercial communica Communications Act communications common carriers communications satellite system communications services companies competition cost countries cumulative voting Department DINGMAN directors Division effective equipment establishment facilities Federal Communications Commission FEMB functions going governmental ground stations HARTMAN hearings industry international communications investment KATZENBACH LANGSTAFF legislation license matter ment million MINOW monopoly munications MURROW NASA negotiations Office operation outer space ownership percent President profit proposed public interest question radio rate base recommended regulation regulatory research and development responsibility satellite communications system satellite corporation Senator KEFAUVER Senator LAUSCHE Senator MCGEE Senator PASTORE Senator YARBOROUGH Space Committee space communications space satellite staff statement technical telegraph telephone television terminal stations tion U.S. Government U.S. Senate United United Nations Western Electric Western Union Yes Yes Yes
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Page 26 - ... contract" means any actual or proposed contract, agreement, understanding, or other arrangement, and includes any assignment, substitution of parties, or subcontract executed or entered into thereunder; and (3) the term "made", when used in relation to any invention, means the conception or first actual reduction to practice of such invention.
Page 12 - States to establish, in conjunction and in cooperation with other countries, as expeditiously as practicable a commercial communications satellite system, as part of an improved global communications network...
Page 20 - May purchase or lease and hold such real and personal property as it deems necessary or convenient in the transaction of its business, and may dispose of any such personal property held by it.
Page 21 - That, subject only to the provisions of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, as amended, the Corporation is authorized to make such expenditures and to enter into such contracts, agreements, and arrangements, upon such terms and conditions and in such manner as it may deem necessary...
Page 67 - In order to achieve the objectives and to carry out the purposes of this Act...
Page 154 - ... during the course of their flight through outer space. The Committee, bearing in mind that its terms of reference refer exclusively to the peaceful uses of outer space, believes that, with this practice, there may have been initiated the recognition or establishment of a generally accepted rule to the effect that, in principle, outer space is, on conditions of equality, freely available for exploration and use by all in accordance with existing or future international law or agreements.
Page 16 - Act, the corporation is authorized to 1. plan, initiate, construct, own, manage, and operate itself or in conjunction with foreign governments or business entities a commercial communications satellite system; 2. furnish, for hire, channels of communication to United States communications common carriers and to other authorized entities, foreign and domestic; and 3. own and operate satellite terminal stations when licensed by the Commission under section 201 (c) (7).
Page 2 - For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges...
Page 4 - Union, and ordered to be printed [Omit the part struck through and Insert the part printed In italic] A BILL To provide for grants to States for the payment of compensation to persons injured by certain criminal acts and omissions, and for other purposes.
Page 18 - Each member of the board, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall subscribe to an oath (or affirmation) to support the Constitution of the United States and to faithfully and impartially perform the duties imposed upon him by this Act.