Administrative agencies

William B. Mabee, an entomologist with the United States Department of Agriculture, examines a handful of dead locusts in the desert area of Pakistan where locusts breed. Mr. Mabee directed a Point Four program conducted jointly by the governments of Pakistan and the United States to control a locust plague. Control measures consisted of aerial spraying of insecticide and hand-spreading poisoned bait.

Stanley Andrews is sworn in as the head of the Technical Cooperation Administration. From left to right: Stanley Andrews; William Simmons, State Department Chief of Protocol; and Dean Acheson, Secretary of State.

William E. Warne, head of the Technical Cooperation for Iran (right), examines baby chicks imported from the United States through the Point Four Program in cooperation with the Government of Iran for its livestock improvement program. All other men in the photo are unidentified.

This is an example of the classic plow of India. It scratches without actually turning the soil. The new-type plow being introduced all over India does a better job. The government of India and the Point Four Program cooperated in the community development program to help improve agriculture, health, and education in India.

A county agricultural agent near Puno, Peru shows farmers how to inoculate alpacas for the control of internal parasites as part of a program sponsored by the Point Four Program. All are unidentified.

Judge John C. Collett is seated behind his desk in his office.

Portrait of desk of Deputy Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies. Original photograph is in oversize file.

Deputy Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies is standing and speaking at a banquet in his honor by the Petroleum Industry War Council. They are at the Statler Hotel in Washington, D. C. Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes is seated at left. Original photograph is in oversize file.

Portrait photograph of Deputy Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies (left) and an unidentified man posed at a globe. Original photograph is in oversized file.

Full length portrait photograph of Ralph K. Davies, standing in a doorway with title Deputy Petroleum Administrator. Original photograph is in oversize file.