Purchase and Charter of Foreign-owned Vessels: Hearings...on H.R. 4088...and H.J.Res. 167...April 17-23, 19411941 - 150 pages |
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acquired Admiral LAND amended American-flag angary April 17 Assistant Secretary LONG authority belligerent BRADLEY Britain cargo CHAIRMAN chartered or purchased CHRISTENSON coastal and intercoastal coastwise trade Colonel GROSS committee Congress crew CULKIN Danish ships emergency ships flag fleet foreign trade foreign-flag vessels going gross tons HILTNER House Joint Resolution intercoastal trade interest international law Joint Resolution 167 legislation Lend Lease Act lend-lease bill Lieutenant Commander REYNOLDS Major BARKALOW MANSFIELD Maritime Commission ment Merchant Marine Act merchant vessels Mooremack national defense national-defense Navy Department necessary Neutrality Act NIELSEN OLIVER owners percent period of section ports private operators provision of law purpose question RAMSPECK reason requisition restrictions Secretary of Commerce section 9 Shipping Act statement TAYLOR tion tonnage trade or service trade routes transfers foreign transportation U. S. Maritime Commission United States Maritime vessel documented vessels chartered ZANDT
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Page 112 - Statutes, on a time-charter or bare-boat basis, upon such terms and conditions, and for snch period or periods, as the Commission may deem necessary or desirable In the public interest, and at such rate of hire as It may deem to be fair and reasonable in view of the attendant circumstances, and (2), to charter any vessel chartered by the Commission under clause (1) hereof to a private operator, a citizen of the United States...
Page 20 - defense article" includes any article described in this subsection: Manufactured or procured pursuant to section 3, or to which the United States or any foreign government has or hereafter acquires title, possession, or control. (b) The term "defense information" means any plan, specification, design, prototype, or information pertaining to any defense article.
Page 16 - Any citizen of the United States as defined in section 2 of the Shipping Act, 1916...
Page 119 - Act; and (2) in accordance with the provisions of subsection (c) hereof engage in the coastwise trade when so documented. Any document issued to a vessel under the provisions of this Act shall be surrendered at any time that such surrender may be ordered by the Secretary of Commerce.
Page 89 - special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States," as used in this title includes: (1) The high seas, any other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States...
Page 136 - The vessel, whether owned by the foreign contractor or any subsequent transferee, shall, If requested by the United States or any qualified department or agency thereof, be sold or chartered to the United States on the same terms and conditions upon which a ship owned by a citizen of the United States...
Page 113 - ... charter or requisition the use of, or take over the title to, or the possession of, for such use or disposition as he shall direct, any foreign merchant vessel which is lying idle in waters within the jurisdiction of the United States, including the Philippine Islands and the Canal Zone, and which is necessary to the national defense...
Page 114 - Act, 1936, as amended, may be chartered to a private operator hereunder. All moneys received by the Commission under the provisions of this section shall be deposited in the construction fund of the Commission, and all disbursements made by the Commission in carrying out the provisions of this section or section 5 (f) (except as provided in section 2) shall be paid from such fund.
Page 114 - To purchase, requisition, or take over the title to, or the possession of, for use or operation by the United States, any ship now constructed or in the process of construction or hereafter constructed or any part thereof, or charter of such ship.
Page 18 - ... am, the committee went into executive session, at the conclusion of which the committee adjourned...