PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 221-JULY 12, 1943 Short courses of college grade. Colleges eligible to receive funds. Additional equip- ment and space. Food production. Preemployment mechanical training. Training in occupa- tions essential to war effort. Sale of copies of slides and films. Report to Congress. Selection of trainees. (2) For the cost of short courses of college grade provided by degree-granting colleges and universities pursuant to plans submitted by them and approved by the Commissioner, which plans shall be for courses of types approved by the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission designed to meet the shortage of engineers, chemists, physicists, and production supervisors in fields essential to the national defense, and such plans may provide for regional coordination of the defense training program of the participating colleges and universi- ties, $25,000,000: Provided,That only colleges and universities which operate under charters which exempt their educational property from taxation and public degree-granting educational institutions shall be eligible to receive funds herefrom: Provided further, That not to exceed 20 per centum of the amount allotted to any school shall be allotted to it for expenditure for purchase and rental of additional equipment and leasing of additional space found by the Commissioner necessary to carry out its approved plan. (3) For the cost of vocational courses in food production and con- servation, mechanics, farm-machinery repair, and farm-labor training of less than college grade designed to give general preemployment mechanical training and to assist in attaining the production goals for those farm commodities designated from time to time in the food- for-freedom program promulgated by the United States Department of Agriculture pursuant to plans submitted by such agencies and approved by the Commissioner, $12,500,000, of which not to exceed 15 per centum shall be available for payment to such agencies for purchase and rental of equipment and rental of space. Visual aids for war training (national defense): For all necessary expenses of the Office of Education in procuring and making available, for reproduction and use, visual aid instructional units, consisting of motion-picture films, lantern slides, slide films, and film loops, for training in occupations essential to the war effort (each such occupa- tion to be approved by the Chairman of the War Manpower Commis- sion), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; travel expenses; printing and binding, $2,000,000, of whichl amount not to exceed $10,000 may be transferred to appropriations for salaries and miscellaneous expenses of the War Manpower Commis- sionl: Provided, That copies of slides and films hereafter made shall be solda:t a price sufficient to pay the whole cost of production of such slides and films. Salaries and expenses (national defense): For all administrative expenses necessary to enable the Office of Education to carry out the foregoing program of education and training of defense workers, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere. traveling expenses, printing and binding, and not to exceed $10,000 for the payment of actual transportation and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses of persons serving, while away from their homes, without other compensation from the United States, in an advisory capacity to the Commissioner, $1,100,000: Provided, That the Commissioner shall transmit to Con- gress quarterly during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944, a report of the defense training programs which operate under his adminis- tration, as provided for in this Act, such reports to show the dis- tribution of Federal funds and activities by States, types of programs, and numbers of persons trained. In the selection of trainees under the provisions of paragraph 1, no maximum age limit for trainees shall be established. No trainee under the appropriations provided for in the foregoing paragraphs 1, 2, and 3 shall be discriminated against because of sex, [57 STAT. 504
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