Construction and Operation of Pipe Line and Navigable Barge Channel Across Florida: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, Second Session, on S. 2426, a Bill to Promote the National Defense and to Promptly Facilitate and Protect the Transport of Materials Needful to the Military Establishemnt by Authorizing the Construction and Operation of Pipe-line and Waterway Facilities Across Northern Florida Between the Intracoastal Waterways Along the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Seaboard, and H.R. 6999 ... June 29, 30, July 1 and 2, 1942Also considers legislation to authorize Intracoastal Waterway enlargement and extension to Mexican border and additional pipeline construction from Ya. |
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... movement of large quantities of war materials from Mexico . The oil and gasoline shortage . - Normal consumption of petroleum and its products in Atlantic seaboard territory ( now rationed ) , 1,600,000 barrels per day . Minimum need ...
... movement of large quantities of war materials from Mexico . The oil and gasoline shortage . - Normal consumption of petroleum and its products in Atlantic seaboard territory ( now rationed ) , 1,600,000 barrels per day . Minimum need ...
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... movement of all petroleum products with the exception of gasoline . To the extent that pipe lines across Florida can handle crude and fuel oil , tank cars will be released to handle larger quantities of gasoline . The total capacity of ...
... movement of all petroleum products with the exception of gasoline . To the extent that pipe lines across Florida can handle crude and fuel oil , tank cars will be released to handle larger quantities of gasoline . The total capacity of ...
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... movement of only one of the many essential war commodities produced along the Gulf Intra- coastal Waterway , namely , petroleum and its products . In this connection , it should be noted that most of the raw materials produced in such ...
... movement of only one of the many essential war commodities produced along the Gulf Intra- coastal Waterway , namely , petroleum and its products . In this connection , it should be noted that most of the raw materials produced in such ...
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... movement , but it does not deliver . Mr. MILLER . Of course , Mr. Chairman , we concede that there is a question as to the facilities . The CHAIRMAN . What do you say to that statement - that 851 steel barges going from Port Arthur to ...
... movement , but it does not deliver . Mr. MILLER . Of course , Mr. Chairman , we concede that there is a question as to the facilities . The CHAIRMAN . What do you say to that statement - that 851 steel barges going from Port Arthur to ...
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... movement of crude and fuel oil , to that extent you release these tank cars for the transportation of the higher - priced commodity , gasoline , which went up 21⁄2 cents a gallon yesterday . Senator RADCLIFFE . The difficulties in ...
... movement of crude and fuel oil , to that extent you release these tank cars for the transportation of the higher - priced commodity , gasoline , which went up 21⁄2 cents a gallon yesterday . Senator RADCLIFFE . The difficulties in ...
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24-inch pipe line amendment Apalachee Bay Atlantic seaboard barge canal barrels a day barrels per day bill BUCKMAN build canal across Florida Chief of Engineers CLARK of Missouri construction Corpus Christi crude oil depth drilling east coast equipment estimate facilities Fort Myers fuel oil gasoline going Gulf Intracoastal Waterway hear Illinois inland waterway Intracoastal Waterway Jacksonville JOHNSON JOSIAH W Lieutenant HUNT line across Florida Madam Chairman Major General REYBOLD Major Parten miles MILLER Mississippi months movement Norfolk operation Petroleum Coordinator pipe-line Port Arthur Port St proposed pumping question Rear Admiral HOTTELL Representative MANSFIELD Representative RIVERS Rivers and Harbors Senator ANDREWS Senator BAILEY Senator BARBOUR Senator CARAWAY Senator CLARK Senator LEE Senator Lucas Senator MAYBANK Senator PEPPER Senator VANDENBERG shortage statement steel barges subcommittee supply SWANN Tampa tank car tankers Texas Tinsley field tons towboats transportation tugs wooden barges
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Page 1 - Establishment, there is hereby authorized to be constructed under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers...
Page 40 - ... FLORIDA SERVICES OF WITNESS IN CONNECTION WITH FLORIDA CANAL Senator THOMAS. Mr. Buckman, will you give your full name to the reporter ? Mr. BUCKMAN. My name is Henry H. Buckman. Senator THOMAS. Please indicate for the record your present position, if any. Mr. BUCKMAN I am a consulting engineer, and I appear here as engineering counsel for the Ship Canal Authority of the State of Florida.
Page 137 - As a member of the Rivers and Harbors Committee of the House for 8 years, I supported those projects.
Page 131 - ... there has been some discussion as to whether or not it is pertinent to the bill.
Page 128 - I just figured out where I would go if I was a mule, and I went there, and there the mule was.
Page 11 - You may put it into the record. (The document referred to and submitted by the witness is here printed in full as follows...
Page 51 - Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: ***** Sec.
Page 200 - But after the emergency is over — and we do not know how long it will last — it is...
Page 164 - ... explanation for the notion "grammatical sentence" in terms of "observed sentence," and for the set of grammars constructed in accordance with such a theory. It is furthermore a reasonable requirement, since we are interested not only in particular languages, but also in the general nature of Language. There is a great deal more that can be said about this crucial topic, but this would take us too far afield.
Page 130 - The committee will take a 5-minute recess. (At this time a short recess was taken. The following then occurred :) Senator BROWN.