 | United States. Congress - Law - 1855 - 466 pages
...and to encourage the production of a superior class of vessels which would promote the convenience and wealth of the country in time of peace, and assist...in defending its shores against hostile aggression. •c These expectations have not been disappointed. The ocean has been traversed with a precision and... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1855 - 470 pages
...production of a superior class of vessel* tchich would promote the convenience and trealthof the country tn time of peace, and assist in defending its shores...hostile aggression. '' These expectations have not ttfen disappointed. The ocean has been traversed with a precision and regularity hitherto deemed impossible;... | |
 | Pliny Miles - Atlantic Ocean - 1859 - 144 pages
...enterprise, and to encourage the production of a class of vessels which would promote the convenience and wealth of the country in time of peace, and assist...in defending its shores against hostile aggression. The reasons for desiring such communication are partly commercial, and partly political." Is it not,... | |
 | Pliny Miles - Atlantic Ocean - 1859 - 124 pages
...enterprise, and to encourage the production of a class of vessels which would promote the convenience and wealth of the country in time of peace, and assist...in defending its shores against hostile aggression. The reasons for desiring such communication are partly commercial, and partly political." Is it not,... | |
 | Sir Cusack Patrick Roney - Railroad tunnels - 1868 - 568 pages
...maritime service approaches it. It is five times as great as that of the Cunard Company. It is more ports which feed the main arteries of British commerce,...regularity hitherto deemed impossible ; commerce and civilisation have been extended ; the colonies have been brought more easily into connection with the... | |
 | William Tegg - Postal service - 1878 - 362 pages
...and to encourage the production of a superior class of vessels which would promote the convenience and wealth of the country in time of peace and assist...precision and regularity hitherto deemed impossible; and steam ships have been constructed of a size and power that, without Government aid, could hardly—at... | |
 | Van Buren Denslow - Economics - 1888 - 846 pages
...and to encourage the production of a superior class of vessels which would promote the convenience and wealth of the country in time of peace, and assist...defending its shores against hostile aggression." It referred to the Cunard subsidy as having grown to £173,340, or at the rate of $2.72} per mile (traveled),... | |
 | VAN BUREN DENSLOW - 1888 - 826 pages
...and to encourage the production of a superior class of vessels which would promote the convenience and wealth of the country in time of peace, and assist...defending its shores against hostile aggression." It referred to the Cunard subsidy as having grown to £173,340, or at the rate of $2.72i per mile (traveled),... | |
 | Protectionism - 1912 - 846 pages
...production of a superior class of vessels which would promote the commerce and .wealth of the nation in time of peace, and assist in defending its shores against hostile aggression." In other words, the British subsidy policy on which at least $300,000,000 has been expended up to date,... | |
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... with distant ports which feed the main arteries of British commerce, and with the most important of our foreign possessions, to foster maritime enterprise, and to encourage the production of a superior class of vessels, which would promote the convenience... 
