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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I had two tours of duty as an officer of the Corps of Engineers during the construction period . Then I visited the Canal many times between 1913 and 1939 , and was recalled to active duty in January 1941 and served 75 months under the ...
I had two tours of duty as an officer of the Corps of Engineers during the construction period . Then I visited the Canal many times between 1913 and 1939 , and was recalled to active duty in January 1941 and served 75 months under the ...
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That was kept going to 1939 , the last normal year of operation , during which period over 100,000 big ships had gone through the Canal and paid tolls . The military and naval traffic was very small and it went through free .
That was kept going to 1939 , the last normal year of operation , during which period over 100,000 big ships had gone through the Canal and paid tolls . The military and naval traffic was very small and it went through free .
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We were making the 3 percent the last year or two , but we averaged over the entire period a scant 3 percent . So that is the point we have now reached , that your resolution calls for that reappraisal of the whole situation .
We were making the 3 percent the last year or two , but we averaged over the entire period a scant 3 percent . So that is the point we have now reached , that your resolution calls for that reappraisal of the whole situation .
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We consider 3 percent as a fair average over that entire period . It was set at the time we were contrasting the original 2 - percent bonds with the 4 / 4 - percent Liberty bonds that we were all holding after World War I. Mr. FUGATE .
We consider 3 percent as a fair average over that entire period . It was set at the time we were contrasting the original 2 - percent bonds with the 4 / 4 - percent Liberty bonds that we were all holding after World War I. Mr. FUGATE .
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If you retain a lock canal , there are certain improvements that can be made to the existing locks that will shorten the overhaul period and thereby greatly increase its traffic and postpone to some extent the time at which a third lock ...
If you retain a lock canal , there are certain improvements that can be made to the existing locks that will shorten the overhaul period and thereby greatly increase its traffic and postpone to some extent the time at which a third lock ...
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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.
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| Title | Investigation of Panama Canal Tolls: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee to Investigate Panama Canal Tolls, Eighty-first Congress, First Session, on H.Res. 44 |
| Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | 12 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 138 pages |
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