To Amend Merchant Marine Act of 1920 ..., Joint Hearings ..., on S.3217 and H.R. 10644 |
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able seamen agreement American merchant marine American ships American Steamship American vessels amount ANDREW FURUSETH Association Atlantic Baltimore BANKHEAD bill Board of Trade boatswain 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 Gulf 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 1263 - 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 1263 - It is necessary for the national defense and development of its foreign and domestic commerce that the United States shall have a merchant marine (a) sufficient to carry its domestic waterborne commerce and a substantial portion of the waterborne export and import foreign commerce of the United States...
Page 1564 - 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 1594 - To terminate 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 1451 - For willful disobedience to any lawful command at sea, by being, at the option of the master, placed in irons until such disobedience shall cease, and upon arrival in port by forfeiture from his wages of not more than four days...
Page 1494 - 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 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 1814 - Such sale shall be made at such prices and on such terms and conditions as the board may prescribe, but the completion of the payment of the purchase price and interest shall not be deferred more than fifteen years after the making of the contract of sale.
Page 1705 - One proposed to provide for the termination of the suspension of the operation of the provisions of the section "in whole or in part * * * in the discretion of the commission, either on its own initiative or after full hearing * * * ." Hearings on this bill were held before the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the House of Representatives.
Page 1491 - The objects for which the company is established are, " the conveyance of passengers and goods in ships or boats between such places as the company may from time to time determine, and the doing all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above object.