U.S. Congress: administrative accounting to, 98-102; banking emergency, 16; concurrent resolution, 103-106; construction of public utilities, 52; co-operation with President, 93; dairy products investigation, 20-21; determination of an emergency, 24-25; determination of strategic materials, 47; emergency powers, 1, 2; establishment of guided missiles proving grounds, 98; executive function of committees, 93-94; famine legislation, 21-22; informing and advising, 100-101; oversight of administration, 109; review of administrative action, 102-103; study and report on, 89 U.S. Constitution, 125, 147; as a flexible charter, 130-133; as a restrictive document, 126-128 U.S. Department of Interior Appropriation Act, 46 U.S. Library of Congress: deposit of political propaganda copy, 81; request of foreign printed matter, 112 U.S. Navy, and furnishing of privately-owned plants, 49, 51-54 passim; increased military strength authorized, (1946), 32-33 U.S. Navy Department, 47 U.S. Navy Department Appropriations Act (1941), 27, 53 U.S. Secretary of Agriculture: agricultural emergency, 17; control of grasshoppers, 99; government use of rubber and, 49-50 U.S. Secretary of Defense: disposition of naval vessels, 96; reporting to Congress on national defense, 94-96; training of the Armed Forces, 97 U.S. Secretary of the Air Force, 48-49 U.S. Secretary of the Interior: determination of strategic materials, 47; liquid fuels program, 50 U.S. Secretary of the Navy: Congressional reporting, 95, 99, 100; emergency measures, 65; extended military enlistments 30; leasing petroleum reserves, 100; plant protection force, 104; possession of war production plants, 52-54; strategic materials and, 40, 51, 52 U.S. Secretary of War: annual report of contracts, 100; emergency measures of, 58; land acquisition, 48, 52; materials for national defense, 51; possession of war production plants, 54; regulation of working hours, 27; wartime powers, 44-45 U.S. Supreme Court: emergency government, 125-126; emergency power, 2, 4-5, 126-133; role in emergency action, 144; steel strike of 1959, 142-143; the Constitution, 133 _U.S. v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation_, 129, 135, 147, 172 _U.S. v. Pee Wee Coal Co._, 174 _U.S. v. Russell_, 174 United Steelworkers of America, 139-143 passim _United Steel Workers of America_, Petitioner, v. _United States, et al._, 142, 175 Universal Military Training and Service Act (1940), amendment (1951), 23, 32, 92, 101-102, 106, 116 Vessels: acquisition of, 51, 52; foreign, in American waters, 71-72; naval, 86, 117 Veterans’ Emergency Housing Act, 19-20 Vinson, Fred M., 139 Vinson-Trammell Act, 1934, 63 Volunteer Reserve, 30 von Braun, Werner, 28 Vote, right to, 89