Post-war Disposition of Merchant Vessels: Hearings...on H.R. 1425...March 1-May 23, 19451945 - 932 páginas |
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Admiral Land agreement amended American merchant marine American operators American shipping basis BENDIX bill BRADLEY build built cargo CHAIRMAN charter hire CHURCH citizens Civil Aeronautics Board CLAYTON coastwise Colonel GARDNER committee companies competition Congress construction contract countries Department depreciated pre-war disposal domestic trade fleet foreign trade GEARY GEASLIN going Government HERTER industry intercoastal interest Interstate Commerce Commission JACKSON lend-lease LEVINE Liberty ships Maritime Commission ment Merchant Marine Act MORGAN national defense Navy owner Panama Panama Canal passenger payment percent period permit ports post-war pre-war domestic cost pre-war foreign cost problem provisions purchase question railroads rates reserve fund restrictions ROTH sales price sell shipbuilding Shipping Administration sold statement Steamship Line subsidized lines subsidy surplus Surplus Property Act tankers tion tonnage tons transportation United unsubsidized War Shipping Administration water carriers Waterman Steamship Corporation WEICHEL WELCH
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Página 534 - States and to provide shipping service on all routes essential for maintaining the flow of such domestic and foreign water-borne commerce at all times, (b) capable of serving as a naval and military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency...
Página 121 - ... owned and operated under the United States flag by citizens of the United States insofar as may be practicable, and (D) composed of the best-equipped, safest, and most suitable types of vessels, constructed in the United States and manned with a trained and efficient citizen personnel.
Página 129 - 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 water-borne commerce and a substantial portion of the water-borne export and import foreign commerce of the United States...
Página 353 - That it is necessary for the national defense and for the proper growth of its foreign and domestic commerce that the United States shall have a merchant marine...
Página 437 - III, or the maxima or minima, or maxima and minima, to be charged, and the divisions of such rates, fares, or charges as hereinafter provided, and the terms and conditions under which such through routes shall be operated.
Página 436 - In so prescribing and determining the divisions of joint rates, fares and charges, the Commission shall give due consideration, among other things, to the efficiency with which the carriers concerned are operated, the amount of revenue required to pay their respective operating expenses, taxes, and a fair return -on their railway property held for and used in the service of transportation...
Página 437 - ... the commission shall by order prescribe the just, reasonable, and equitable divisions thereof to be received by the several carriers...
Página 414 - Congress, or both, any defense article for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.
Página 363 - First, the creation of an adequate and well-balanced merchant fleet, including vessels of all types, to provide shipping service on all routes essential for maintaining the flow of the foreign commerce of the United States, the vessels in such fleet to be so designed as to be readily and quickly convertible into transport and supply vessels in a time of national emergency.
Página 129 - ... operated under the United States flag by citizens of the United States insofar as may be practicable, and (d) composed of the best-equipped, safest, and most suitable types of vessels, constructed in the United States and manned with a trained and efficient citizen personnel. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to foster the development and encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine.