Navy Department Appropriation Bill for 1947: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, Second Session, on the Navy Department Appropriation Bill for 1947, Including United States Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946 |
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agency American amount appropriation Assistant audit basis break-down Budget building cadets Captain CONWAY Captain MACAULEY Chairman charter coast Colonel BUTLER committee Commodore KNIGHT construction contract contractor Corp cost Departmental Director disposal dry cargo estimated expenditures expenses facilities field figure fiscal year 1947 foreign functions going Government handling HELMBOLD HYDE JOHNSON of Indiana June 30 justification Kings Point KIRSCH lay-up Liberty ships man-years of employment maritime academies Maritime Commission ment Merchant Marine Act months Navy number of employees number of ships paid passenger percent personnel PLOESER PLUMLEY ports private operators question rates record reduced referred renegotiation repair request schedule SCHELL schools seamen SHEPPARD Ship Sales Shipbuilding Shipping Administration shipyards SLATTERY statement subsidy Surplus Property tankers termination THOMAS tion Total trade U. S. Maritime Commission UNRRA vessels Victory ships War Shipping Administration WEBER yards
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Page 60 - No member of or delegate to Congress, or resident commissioner, shall be admitted to any share or part of this agreement, or to any benefit that may arise therefrom; but this provision shall not be construed to extend to this agreement if made with a corporation for its general benefit.
Page 545 - 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 water-borne commerce and a substantial portion of the water-borne export and import foreign commerce of the United States...
Page 245 - 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 246 - Commerce shall consider and give due weight to the cost of maintaining each of such steamship lines, the probability that any such line cannot be maintained except at a heavy loss disproportionate to the benefit accruing to foreign trade, the number of sailings and types of vessels that should be employed in such lines...
Page 546 - Such contract shall provide that the amount of the operating-differential subsidy shall not exceed the excess of the fair and reasonable cost of insurance, maintenance, repairs not compensated by insurance, wages and subsistence of officers and crews, and any other items of expense in which the Commission shall find and determine that the applicant is at a substantial disadvantage in competition with vessels of the foreign country hereinafter referred to...
Page 625 - ... 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 625 - ... capable of serving as a naval and military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency, (c) owned and operated under the United States flag by citizens of the United States insofar as may be practicable...
Page 625 - 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, ultimately to be owned and operated privately by citizens of the United States...
Page 75 - In WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the day and year first above written: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA By (Contracting Officer) By (Name of Company) (Title) (d) Limitations.
Page 44 - Commission, and all of the proceeds of sales of ships and surplus property heretofore or hereafter made, including proceeds of notes or other evidences of debt taken therefor and the interest thereon, and, notwithstanding any other provision of law, all money representing amounts of unclaimed wages, salvage awards and miscellaneous unclaimed items carried as liabilities on the books of the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation...