Annual Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - Canal Zone |
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... Tests on guard valves___ . 104 Miter - gate moving machines_ 105 Miter - gate moving machine tests . 106 Miter - gate forcing machines_____ . 107 Tests on miter gate - forcing machines ... 108 Towing track material _------ 108 Rack ...
... Tests on guard valves___ . 104 Miter - gate moving machines_ 105 Miter - gate moving machine tests . 106 Miter - gate forcing machines_____ . 107 Tests on miter gate - forcing machines ... 108 Towing track material _------ 108 Rack ...
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... test checks of property were transferr from the chief quartermaster to the examiner of accounts . The remaining work in the Atlantic and fifth divisions havi reached such a stage as not to justify the administrative charg that the ...
... test checks of property were transferr from the chief quartermaster to the examiner of accounts . The remaining work in the Atlantic and fifth divisions havi reached such a stage as not to justify the administrative charg that the ...
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... tests were conducted to determine the conditions under which the most satisfactory operation might be obtained , and the results btained show the advisability of reducing the duty of the motor , which has very little reserve power , by ...
... tests were conducted to determine the conditions under which the most satisfactory operation might be obtained , and the results btained show the advisability of reducing the duty of the motor , which has very little reserve power , by ...
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... tests made of the guard val showed that the machines would not operate satisfactorily as or mally designed , and a number of changes were made necessary . most important , ones consisted in providing an outboard bearing the pinion shvit ...
... tests made of the guard val showed that the machines would not operate satisfactorily as or mally designed , and a number of changes were made necessary . most important , ones consisted in providing an outboard bearing the pinion shvit ...
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... tests had been completed on the two sample chain - fender machines , the results indicated that they wold carry out the work for which they were designed and arrange- zents were made to order the balance of the equipment . Of the 16 to ...
... tests had been completed on the two sample chain - fender machines , the results indicated that they wold carry out the work for which they were designed and arrange- zents were made to order the balance of the equipment . Of the 16 to ...
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Page 551 - States of America in Congress assembled, That an Act entitled "An Act to prohibit the importation and use of opium for other than medicinal purposes," approved February ninth, nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: ******* "SEC. 6. That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person subject to the jurisdiction of
Page 598 - By virtue of authority vested in me by the Act approved April 6, 1914, entitled "An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and for prior years, and for other purposes," a committee of six members is hereby created to arrange and provide suitable ceremonies for the
Page 580 - virtue of the authority vested in me, I hereby enact the following order, creating a permanent organization for the Panama Canal, under the Act of Congress "To provide for the opening, maintenance, protection and operation of the Panama Canal and the sanitation and government of the Canal Zone,
Page 287 - when any material, supplies, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal is no longer needed, or is no longer serviceable, it may be sold in such manner as the President may direct, and without advertising in such classes of cases as may be authorized by him.
Page 569 - anything; multiply the quantity thus obtained by one-third of the common interval between the areas, and the product will be the cubical contents of the space, or cubical contents of each part if the ship is measured in parts under the tonnage deck. The tonnage of this volume is obtained
Page 569 - 2; to the sum of these products add the first and last breadths; multiply the whole sum by one-third of the common interval between the breadths, and the result will give in superficial feet the mean horizontal area of the space; measure the mean height of the space, and multiply
Page 569 - of the vessel. This rule for measuring the depth of the hold applies to double-bottom ships having top of double bottom not horizontal. If the depth at the midship division of the length does not exceed 16 feet, divide each depth into 5 equal parts; then measure the inside horizontal breadth at each of the four
Page 569 - of the stem to the lining on the timbers at the stern, and divide the length into the same number of equal parts into which the length of the tonnage deck is divided, as above directed ; measure (also at the middle of its height) the
Page 569 - of division, and also at the upper point of the depth; number them from above, as before; multiply the second, fourth, and sixth by 4, and the third and fifth by 2; add these products together, and to the sum add the first breadth and the seventh.
Page 556 - the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: « * * * * * * BELIEF AND PROTECTION OF AMERICAN SEAMEN. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Philippine Islands, $20,000. ***«**• Approved, June 30, 1914.