Congress will not infrequently require or enable one agency, on an interim or continuing basis, to come to the assistance of another in the execution of its program. This may take the form of providing money, material, facilities, or service to the agency. It is a kind of mutual assistance program within the executive branch. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation, for example, was occasionally treated by Congress as a source of credit to enable agencies to launch authorized programs immediately after enactment, and thus avoid the delays which attend appropriation of funds for authorized programs. The Far Eastern Economic Assistance Act of 1950 authorized the appropriation to the President of sixty million dollars to enable the Economic Co-operation Administration to furnish assistance to the Republic of Korea. As a way of getting the program started at once, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was authorized and directed to make advances not to exceed thirty million dollars in the aggregate, until the regular appropriation was available.[706] It can readily be seen that this device might be employed not only to avoid the normal delays of the appropriations process, but to circumvent or nullify the obstructive tactics of an unfriendly appropriations subcommittee. The India Emergency Food Aid Act of 1951 contained a similar provision. If the President, after consultation with public and private shipping officials, found that private shipping was not available to carry American food to India on reasonable terms and conditions, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was authorized and directed to make advances not to exceed in the aggregate twenty million dollars to the Department of Commerce for activation of vessels for such transportation.[707] Other mutual assistance provisions enable or require agencies to produce or procure goods or services for other agencies under certain conditions. The Tennessee Valley Authority Act required the Corporation, upon the requisition of the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy to manufacture for and sell at cost to the United States explosives or their nitrogenous content. Upon the requisition of the Secretary of War the Corporation was to allot and deliver without charge to the War Department whatever power was necessary in the judgment of the Department for use in operation of all locks, lifts, and other facilities in aid of navigation.[708] The Helium Gas Act of 1937 permitted the Army, Navy, and other government agencies to requisition helium from the Bureau of Mines, which agency was charged with responsibility for the production of helium.[709]