Investigation of Panama Canal Tolls: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee to Investigate Panama Canal Tolls, Eighty-first Congress, First Session, on H.Res. 44 |
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... canals in the United States__ Increased direct operating costs at the Atlantic locks which are indicative of general conditions_ 44 33 Results of operations in 1948 . 18 Results of operations for fiscal year 1948 without interest and ...
... canals in the United States__ Increased direct operating costs at the Atlantic locks which are indicative of general conditions_ 44 33 Results of operations in 1948 . 18 Results of operations for fiscal year 1948 without interest and ...
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... Canal Zone ; ( c ) United States civil government , including , but not limited to , sanita- tion , public schools , hools , playgrounds , hospitals , and so forth ; ( d ) business operations conducted under the supervision of the ...
... Canal Zone ; ( c ) United States civil government , including , but not limited to , sanita- tion , public schools , hools , playgrounds , hospitals , and so forth ; ( d ) business operations conducted under the supervision of the ...
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... Canal Zone ; the United States civil government , including but not limited to sanitation , public schools , playgrounds , hospitals , and so forth ; business operations conducted under the supervision of the Governor General of the ...
... Canal Zone ; the United States civil government , including but not limited to sanitation , public schools , playgrounds , hospitals , and so forth ; business operations conducted under the supervision of the Governor General of the ...
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... operations plus a differential , and we have a permanent Wage Board reviewing those things periodically . Different categories will come in and ask for an increase in wages based on some increase in the Boston Navy Yard , or on some ...
... operations plus a differential , and we have a permanent Wage Board reviewing those things periodically . Different categories will come in and ask for an increase in wages based on some increase in the Boston Navy Yard , or on some ...
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... canal operations . But the hospitals get fees from the employees . For instance , if a wife goes up to that hospital and has a baby , the employee pays for that out of his own salary at a rate fixed by the hospital . The hospital takes ...
... canal operations . But the hospitals get fees from the employees . For instance , if a wife goes up to that hospital and has a baby , the employee pays for that out of his own salary at a rate fixed by the hospital . The hospital takes ...
Common terms and phrases
90 cents accounting American shipping amortized amount annual report Appropriations Army ARTICLE Bailey basis BURDICK Canal authorities Canal operations Canal Zone capital investment Chairman Clayton-Bulwer Treaty commercial shipping commercial users committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY construction cost of operation deficit DREWRY DUNLOP employees facilities figures fiscal foreign shipping forgiven tolls FUGATE future Government vessels Governor Hay-Pauncefote Treaty increase intercoastal shipping intercoastal trade interest charge LIBRARY OF CONGRESS locks Maritime Commission MELLEN merchant marine military MILLER national defense Navy NEWCOMER November 18 operating costs operating expenses Pacific Panama Canal tolls Panama Railroad Panama Railroad Company PARMELEE percent period present President PRINCE profit protection purposes question RARY recommend Republic of Panama RESS revenues sanitation shipping interests Soo Canal statement STEESE subcommittee subsidy Suez Canal THOMPSON tion toll rate traffic transiting the Canal treaty United Washington
Popular passages
Page 21 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic or otherwise.
Page 83 - The Republic of Panama further grants in like manner to the United States in perpetuity all islands within the limits of the zone above described and in addition thereto the group of small islands in the Bay of Panama, named Perico, Naos, Culebra and Flamenco.
Page 75 - Treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof , and by His Britannic Majesty; and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington or at London at the earliest possible time within six months from the date hereof.
Page 74 - April, 1850, commonly called the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, to the construction of such canal under the auspices of the Government of the United States, without impairing the "general principle...
Page 77 - II which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power, or authority.
Page 103 - An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans...
Page 76 - Colombia, and the sovereignty of such territory being actually vested in the Republic of Panama, the high contracting parties have resolved for that purpose to conclude a convention and have accordingly appointed as their plenipotentiaries, — The President of the United States of America, John Hay, Secretary of State, and The Government of the Republic of Panama, Philippe...
Page 72 - The contracting parties will use whatever influence they respectively exercise with any State, States, or governments, possessing, or claiming to possess, any jurisdiction or right over the territory which the said canal shall traverse, or which shall be near the waters applicable thereto, in order to induce such States or governments to facilitate the construction of the said canal by every means in their power.
Page 73 - ... sufficient capital subscribed to accomplish the contemplated undertaking; it being understood that if, at the expiration of the aforesaid period, such persons or company be not able to commence and carry out the proposed enterprise, then the Governments of the United States and Great Britain shall be free to afford their protection to any other persons or company that shall be prepared to commence and proceed with the construction of the canal in question.