American-flag Shipping on the Great Lakes: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Maritime Affairs of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session on ... Bills to Aid the Development and Maintenance of American-flag Shipping on the Great Lakes, and for Other Purposes, Volume 53U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950 - 281 páginas |
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19 Rector Street agent alien all-rail allowance amended American approval bill BLATNIK BONNER Buffalo buyer Captain MCGUIGAN cargo CHAIRMAN charter party Chile Chilean coastwise COLES committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY convert corporation cost Duluth executing this application feet fleet foreign registry freight service give Government grain HEWITT home port interested Interstate Commerce Commission JONAS Lakes operators Lakes shipping Lakes Transit Corp legislation liens Maritime Commission MCCANDLESS McKEE MELLEN Merchant Marine Milwaukee Minn Minneapolis Muskegon Notary Public ocean Overlakes Freight Corp package freight package-freight service passenger ships percent POTTER present proposed vendee purchase question rail railroads rates reconversion record reference sale or transfer sales price seal Ship Sales Act shippers Shipping Act shipyard SMITH sold statement Steamship subcommittee TOLLEFSON tonnage tons trade traffic transportation United States Maritime Valparaiso vendee or charterer War Shipping Administration WEICHEL WILLIAM ALLEN York
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Página 243 - ... developing, coordinating, and preserving a national transportation system by water, highway, and rail, as well as other means, adequate to meet the needs of the commerce of the United States, of the Postal Service, and of the national defense. All of the provisions of this Act. shall be administered and enforced with a view to carrying out the above declaration of policy.
Página 97 - States, and whoever violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not more than $5,000, or to imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.
Página 276 - ... the Merchant Ship Sales Act by negotiation rather than by competitive bidding. I should point out, however, that the question of the desirability of competitive bidding has been raised...
Página 244 - The choice of shippers and travelers among competing transportation services will largely be determined by relative charges for the services rather than by relative costs of performing them. Unless, therefore, the rates charged by each mode of transportation reflect its true costs, we cannot hope for an economic distribution of traffic among the various modes, and it is only through an economic distribution of traffic among them that there can be any hope of developing and preserving the inherent...
Página 71 - California, sole owner of said vessel, and there is no mortgage or lien on record against said vessel in this office. Given under my hand and seal of office this 8th day of September, 1900, 10.40 am j Deputy Collector.
Página 27 - Act, and to install therein such special features, as may be necessary or advisable to make such vessel suitable for commercial operation on trade routes or services or comparable as to commercial utility to other such vessels of the same general type.
Página 27 - ... an obligation in a principal amount which does not exceed 75 per centum of the cost (as estimated by the Commission) of the construction, reconstruction, or reconditioning financed by the loan or advance, but in no event to exceed 75 per centum of the amount which the Commission estimates will be the value of the property when the construction, reconstruction, or reconditioning is completed...
Página 244 - ... in a sound economic position to express their comparative choices as to which kind of transportation they prefer. In these circumstances, competitive relationships within the transportation system are distorted, the relative economy and fitness of the alternative types are not truly reflected, an uneconomical allocation of capital is encouraged, and distributions of traffic will depart from true economic standards. Waste of public funds also is difficult, if not impossible, to check when special...