To Amend Merchant Marine Act of 1920: Joint Hearings, Sixty-seventh Congress, Second Session, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922 - Merchant marine |
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able seamen agreement American merchant marine American ships American vessels ANDREW FURUSETH Association Atlantic Atlantic Transport Co Baltimore BANKHEAD bill Board of Trade BRIGGS capital cargo carry cent Chairman Chamber of Commerce CHINDBLOM coastwise laws committee cost crew Cunard Line DAVIS deck deck department difference dividends EDMONDS engineer fact farmers favor firemen foreign ships freight FURUSETH Government GREENE HARDY HOWARD interests International Mercantile Marine International Seamen's Union J. P. Morgan Lasker LISSNER Love MANSON MARSH mate ment Merrill National O'BRIEN officers operation ordinary seamen organization Pacific Mail passenger Philippine ports President profits proposition question railroads rates record reference sailing sailors San Francisco scale seamen's act Senator FLETCHER shipowners Shipping Board statement steamers steamship lines steward steward's department subsidy thing tion tonnage tons Total United States Shipping votes York
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Page 1261 - That it is necessary for the national defense and for the proper growth of its foreign and domestic commerce that the United States shall have a merchant marine of the best equipped and most suitable types of vessels sufficient to carry the greater portion of its commerce and serve as a naval or military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency...
Page 1261 - States; and it is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to do whatever may be necessary to develop and encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine...
Page 1590 - ... existing agreements would necessarily bring about one of two results; the lines would either engage in rate wars which would mean the elimination of the weak and the survival of the strong, or, to avoid a costly struggle, they would consolidate through common ownership. Neither result can be prevented by legislation, and either would mean a monopoly fully as effective, and it is believed more so, than can exist by virtue of an agreement.
Page 1779 - ... existing freight rates and prospects of their maintenance, the cost of constructing vessels of similar types under prevailing conditions, as well as the cost of the construction or purchase price of the vessels to be sold, and any other facts or conditions that would influence a prudent, solvent business man in the sale of similar vessels or property which he is not forced to sell.
Page 1560 - No foreign vessel shall transport passengers between ports or places in the United States, either directly or by way of a foreign port, under a penalty of $200 for each passenger so transported and landed.
Page 1490 - Any notice, if served by post, shall be deemed to have been served at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of the post...
Page 1562 - States not now covered thereby, and the board is directed prior to the expiration of such year to have established adequate steamship service at reasonable rates to accommodate the commerce and the passenger travel of said islands and to maintain and operate such service until it can be taken over and operated and maintained upon satisfactory terms by private capital and enterprise: Provided. That if adequate shipping service is not established by.
Page 1686 - Now, I want to ask you if it is not a fact that the safety of a hedge depends upon a parity being maintained between the future price and the spot price ? Mr.
Page 1601 - SEC. 7. That the Secretary of Transportation is authorized and directed to investigate and determine as promptly as possible after the enactment of this Act and from time to time thereafter what steamship lines should be established and put in operation from ports in the United States or any Territory, District, or possession thereof to such world and domestic markets as in his judgment are desirable for the promotion, development, expansion, and maintenance of the foreign and coastwise trade of...
Page 1308 - Every member of the company undertakes to contribute to the assets of the company in the event of the same being wound up during the time that he is a member or within 1 year afterward for payment of the debts and liabilities of the company contracted before the time at which he ceases to be a member...