Sale of Certain Government-owned Merchant Vessels: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session on S.292, a Bill to Provide for the Sale of Certain Government-owned Merchant Vessels, and for Other Purposes ... |
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Page 275 - 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 and to provide shipping service on all routes essential for maintaining the flow of such domestic and foreign water-borne commerce at all times...
Page 235 - Marine (A) sufficient to carry its domestic waterborne commerce and a substantial portion of the waterborne export and import foreign commerce of the United States and to provide shipping service on all routes essential for maintaining the flow of such domestic and foreign waterborne commerce at all times, (B) capable of serving as a naval and military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency...
Page 144 - 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 waterborne commerce and a substantial portion of the waterborne export and import foreign commerce of the United States...
Page 76 - citizen of the United States" include a corporation, partnership, or association only if it is a citizen of the United States within the meaning of section 2 of the Shipping Act, 1916, as amended (USC, title 46, sec.
Page 157 - ... be surveyed by the commission at the expense of the applicant for the lease, in accordance with rules and regulations to be prescribed by the commission, and the lands leased shall be conformed to and taken in accordance with the legal subdivisions of such surveys.
Page 76 - ... give preference in such sale or charter, as the case may be, to the former owner of such vessel, or to the person for whom the vessel was constructed but to whom delivery thereof was prevented by the United States.
Page 76 - States, and (C) is owned by a citizen or citizens of the United States and has been owned by such citizen or citizens for at least three years immediately prior to the date of acquisition hereunder.
Page 236 - Commission, of vessels of such type delivered during the calendar year 1944, except in case of any type of vessel the principal deliveries of which were made after the calendar year 1944, there shall be used in lieu of such year 1944 such period of not less than six consecutive calendar months as the Commission shall find to be most representative of war production costs of such type. (f) "Cessation of hostilities...
Page 76 - States for national defense or military purposes in time of war or national emergency; (2) the applicant possesses the ability, experience, financial resources, and other qualifications necessary to enable it to operate and maintain the proposed new vessel...
Page 238 - In determining the order of preference between citizen applicants to purchase or between citizen applicants to charter, the Commission shall consider, among other relevant factors, the extent to which losses and requisitions of the applicant's prewar tonnage have been overcome and shall in all cases, in the sale and charter of a war-built vessel...