Energy Transportation Security Act of 1977: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 1037 .... |
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Page 522 - ... which may be transported on ocean vessels shall be transported on privately owned United States-flag commercial vessels, to the extent such vessels are available at fair and reasonable rates...
Page 304 - ... no national requirement under any foreseeable circumstances for all the shipping registered, but receipts from very small charges on a large tonnage may produce a substantial effect on its national income and balance of payments...
Page 201 - Transportation to requisition or purchase any vessel or other watercraft owned by citizens of the United States or under construction within the United States, or for any period during such emergency, to requisition or charter the use of any such property.
Page 489 - 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 540 - Convention shall enter into force twelve months after the date on which not less than 15 States, the combined merchant fleets of which constitute not less than fifty per cent of the gross tonnage of the world's merchant shipping, have become parties to it in accordance with Article 13 2.
Page 531 - July 1962, before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Maritime Administrator Donald W.
Page 476 - Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee. It is a privilege for me to appear before this Committee and to discuss some of the major aspects of HR 1037 which are of particular importance to the Navy.
Page 522 - One of the basic objectives of the reorganization plan was to establish a completely independent regulatory agency which would be responsible for the regulation of waterborne shipping in the foreign and domestic offshore commerce of the United States.
Page 21 - The focus of the remainder of this chapter will be on the testimony received on three cost or price differentials due to cargo preference: 1.
Page 476 - USNR in 1942 and served throughout World War II in Eastern Sea Frontier headquarters. She was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander prior to release from active duty in 1946. Mr. Claytor received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Virginia and is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he was President of the Harvard Law Review from 1935 to 1936. After serving successively as Law Clerk to the late US Court of Appeals Judge Learned Hand and to the late US Supreme Court Justice...