Enlargement and Extension of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway: Including the Construction of a Barge Channel and Pipe Line Across Northern Florida. Hearings, Seventy-seventh Congress, Second Session on H.R. 6999 |
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24-inch line ALEXANDER ALLEN Atlantic coast Atlantic seaboard BARDELEBEN barge canal barge line barrels a day barrels per day boats BOWIE BUCKMAN build canal across Florida capacity Captain RUDE Carrabelle CHAIRMAN Colonel THOMPSON committee Congress construction Corpus Christi cost crude oil CULKIN depth DONDERO east coast engineers facilities gasoline gentleman going Gulf coast HOFMOKEL industry inland waterways interested intracoastal canal Intracoastal Waterway Jacksonville line across Florida Louisiana MACLEAY Major PARTEN Mexico miles MILLER Mississippi River months move movement operation PENNINGTON percent PETERSON petroleum Petroleum Coordinator petroleum products pipe line pipe-line PITTENGER Port Isabel Port St present President proposed pumping question rail railroads RANKIN refineries REYBOLD Rio Grande Valley rivers and harbors route SHARY SHINKLE ship statement submarine sulfur supply tank cars tankers Tapco Texas tion tonnage tons transportation WALKER War Production Board wooden barges
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Page 193 - ... it would be beneficial is that if we are not going to supply the demand for the qualities of cotton that exists, synthetic manufacturers and foreign producers will take over our markets. The disadvantages that I can see with respect to an increased acreage are minimal as compared to the advantages. I do not think that we should lose sight of the fact that the big, fundamental thing that we ought to be looking at is that we should not destroy our market for our crop. Now the argument as to whether...
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Page 15 - ... persons shall give such bond as the court may deem proper to secure the payment to the persons entitled thereto of the amount of compensation finally awarded in the proceeding, with such interest as may be payable under the provisions of such Act of February 26, 1931. SEC. 6. In case the construction, extension, or completion of any such pipe line is undertaken otherwise than as provided in section 4, the President, for the purpose of facilitating such construction, extension, or completion,...
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Page 4 - Haynes, traffic director, Chicago Association of Commerce, Chicago, 111.; LM Hogsett, manager, transportation department, Chamber of Commerce, Houston, Tex.; L. Lacroix, traffic manager, Chamber of Commerce, Evansville, Ind.; LG Macomber, traffic commissioner, Chamber of Commerce, Toledo, Ohio; Roy Miller, active vice president, Intracoastal Canal Association of Louisiana and Texas, Corpus Christi, Tex.; Donald O. Moore, manager, traffic bureau, Chamber of Commerce, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Herman Mueller,...
Page 29 - The CHAIRMAN. The committee will recess until 2 o'clock. (Whereupon the committee took a recess until 2 pm) AFTER RECESS The committee reconvened, pursuant to the taking of the recess, Hon.