intervention "was a major factor in the decision." In the August 24, 2006, edition of the Federal Register, the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife
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device in the Great Seal at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, known as The Thing, was the catalyst for developing countermeasures technology. By the end of the
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Air Force (category 1947 establishments in the United States) Departments, namely the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the newly created Department of the Air Force. Prior to 1947, the responsibility
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"Father of the Department of Agriculture." In 1849, the Patent Office was transferred to the newly created Department of the Interior. In the ensuing years
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Department of Transportation. The FHWA took over the functions of the Bureau of Public Roads the following year. The FHWA's role in the Federal-aid Highway Program
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within the Treasury Department in 1927, was transferred to the Justice Department in 1930, and became, briefly, a division of the FBI in 1933. When the Volstead
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an element of NOAA. The remainder of the USFWS remained in place in the Department of the Interior in 1970 as the foundation of the USFWS as it is known
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Court case in which the United States is a party and also represents in most cases in which the government has filed a brief as amicus curiae. In the United
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Secretary. For the next year, Roosevelt remained in Washington to coordinate the naval deployment, as the Navy expanded fourfold. In the summer of 1918, Roosevelt
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Army (category 1775 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies) designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution. The Army is the oldest branch of the U.S. military and the most senior in order of precedence
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division in the field; by 1865, the CSA had more engineer officers serving in the field of action than the Union Army. One of the main projects for the Army
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at the seat of government, with the others being the Air Staff and the Office of the Chief of Space Operations. The Office of the Secretary of the Air
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representing the U.S. at the United Nations. The department is headquartered in the Harry S Truman Building, a few blocks from the White House, in the Foggy Bottom
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efforts within the organization, resulting in limitations. At the end of the war, the United States Army was reduced in size during the transition to peacetime
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Montana (category 1889 establishments in the United States) Garrison in 1852. The Gold rush in the region commenced in earnest starting in 1862. A series of major mineral discoveries in the western part of the state
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when the President directs, the Coast Guard operates under the Department of Defense as a service in the Department of the Navy. As members of the military
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some of their land in the Mississippi Valley to the U.S. in 1832 in the Black Hawk Purchase Treaty and sold their remaining land in Iowa in 1842, most of them
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continuously been the largest automaker in the United States, and was the largest in the world for 77 years before losing the top spot to Toyota in 2008. General
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coordinate the scientific research of the Manhattan Project, the Allied project to develop the first nuclear weapons. In September 1942, the difficulties
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Tennessee (category 1796 establishments in the United States) officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast
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