...authority for this activity. The mandate of the Department of Agriculture, for example, Indicates it shall "diffuse among the people of the United States useful Information on subjects connected with agriculture, rural development, aquaculture, and human nutrition. In the most general and comprehensive...

...1, 2 A. Statutory Requirements Met by the Program: "The Bureau of Labor Statistics shall acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful....labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word, and the means of promoting their prosperity ..." (29 USC 1). B. Legislated Uses of the Program's...

...1 — authorized it to "collect information upon the subject of labor, its relation to capital and hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women,...material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity." In addition to this umbrella authorization, which has been interpreted broadly to cover the production...

...Abraham Lincoln signed legislation creating the US Department of Agriculture, ". . .to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word. . . " Five days later, Lincoln...

...1862, establishing the Department of Agriculture. The act sets forth a mission, "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful Information on subjects connected with agriculture 1n the most comprehensive and general sense of the word," and placed upon the Secretary...

...the authorizing legislation, assigned to this new arm of Government [the ability] "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and...

...TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER The mission of the National Agricultural Library (NAL) is "... to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word." Consider the challenge of organizing...

...establishing the Department of Agriculture. The act, as amended, sets forth a mission, "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, rural development, aquaculture and human nutrition, in the most comprehensive and general...

...dissemination of information. USDA was created by an Act of Congress in 1X62 ..... "to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense on the word." Today USDA creates information...

...define it a little better. It means "the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word." I did not phrase that description....