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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF17-006
This folder contains material pertaining to the Federal Telecommunications System (FTS), a network of communication services for federal agencies. Items include a staff report by the General Services Administration (GSA) to the Bureau of the Budget on the proposed FTS; letters of intent to AT&T for Phases I and II of the project; GSA policy circulars; letters to heads of federal agencies; an article by Representative Jack Brooks on the FTS, reprinted from Public Utilities Fortnightly; a GSA report titled "Study of a Federal Telecommunications System for Civil Agencies"; a statement by Robert F. Mundy to the U.S. House Government Activities Subcommittee on "Communications and a Decentralized Federal Government"; and documents concerning the role of the FTS in emergency planning activities.
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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF17-005
This folder contains material pertaining to national transportation policy, likely from the files of Robert B. Conrad, Commissioner of the Transportation and Communications Service. Topics include President Kennedy's message on the nation's transportation system; analysis by the General Services Administration of national transportation policy recommendations made by the Department of Commerce; and H.R. 4701, a bill to strengthen and improve the national transportation system.
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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF17-004
This folder contains material pertaining to the Cargo Preference Act and the Inter-Agency Committee on Cargo Preference, likely from the files of Robert B. Conrad and Malcolm D. Miller of the Transportation and Communications Service. Items include a report titled "Free-World Shipping in the Cuban Trade" by the U.S. Maritime Administration; a booklet titled "The Carrier's Role in Export Control" by the U.S. Department of Commerce (March 1957); a presentation by the American Maritime Association regarding emergency planning and the oil import program; and a list of "Tankers and Owners in Communist Oil Export Trade as of March 29, 1962."
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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF17-003
This folder contains material pertaining to the Cargo Preference Act and the Inter-Agency Committee on Cargo Preference, likely from the files of Robert B. Conrad and Malcolm D. Miller of the Transportation and Communications Service. Items include a report by the U.S. Maritime Administration titled "An Analysis of the Ships Under Effective U.S. Control and Their Employment in U.S. Foreign Trade During 1960," and copies of statements by Earl J. Smith, Marvin J. Coles, J. Max Harrison, J. M. Calhoon, and Paul Hall before the Maritime Evaluation Committee. Note that the file also contains some reference material and data dating back to 1955.
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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF17-002
This folder contains material pertaining to the establishment of the National Communications System.
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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF17-001
This folder contains material pertaining to the National Communications System from the files of Robert B. Conrad, Commissioner of the Transportation and Communications Service. It also includes some information related to the Federal Telecommunications System. Types of items include drafts, notes, memoranda, and copies of related legislation.
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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF15-018
This folder contains memoranda and reports pertaining to the establishment of the National Communications System.
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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF02-022
This folder contains memoranda detailing the General Services Administration's feedback on a Department of Commerce report of national transportation policy recommendations.
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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF02-021
This folder contains correspondence and memoranda pertaining to the proposed prohibition on vessels trading with Cuba, which resulted from the Cuban Missile Crisis and was ultimately finalized under National Security Action Memorandum 220.
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USGSA
Records 1959-1964 (bulk 1961-1963). Microfilm copies of records of Administrator Bernard L. Boutin, and the subdivisions of the agency including the Defense Materials Service, Federal Supply Service, National Archives and Records Service, Public Building Service, Transportation and Communications Service, and Utilization and Disposal Service. Hard copy includes correspondence, a prospectus for alterations to the White House, and the Public Building Service's report on the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.