Amendment to Cargo Preference Statutes |
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Page 144 - ... 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. 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.
Page 144 - 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 of the best equipped and most suitable types of vessels sufficient to carry the greater portion of its commerce and serve as a naval or military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency...
Page 144 - States and it is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to do whatever may be necessary to develop and encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine...
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 92 - AFL-CIO, respectfully urge the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the House of Representatives of the United States to do everything in its power to insure the maintenance and preservation of Public Law 664.
Page 126 - States-flag commercial vessels, to the extent such vessels are available at fair and reasonable rates...
Page 90 - The Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, AFLCIO, is a labor union, admitting to membership. all workers employed in the shipbuilding, ship repairing, and marine maintenance industries, and in industries producing marine equipment, and in allied enterprises and industries. This union has a vital interest in the amendment of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act because the act covers ship repairmen, harbor workers, and ship servicemen.
Page 144 - 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 28 - surplus agricultural commodity" shall mean any agricultural commodity or product thereof, class, kind, type, or other specification thereof, produced in the United States, either privately or publicly owned, which is or may be reasonably expected to be in excess of domestic requirements, adequate carryover, and anticipated exports for dollars, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture.
Page 74 - It is impossible to estimate with any degree of accuracy the value of the legal trade of this district in all of its channels. The early accounts are all more or less vague. Colonel William Hart in 1720 said that the annual produce of Pennsylvania, including the home trade, was £100,000, and that the annual consumption of British manufactures was valued between £50,000...