Annual Report of the United States Shipping BoardU.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 - Merchant marine Includes the annual report of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation (called 1927-1933, United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation). |
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activities agencies agents American American International Shipbuilding amount Atlantic authority barges Bethlehem Shipbuilding Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation Board Emergency Fleet bunkering cancellation cargo cent charter Chester coal coast coastwise Committee completed composite ships concrete concrete ship construction contract contractors cost Dead dead-weight tons district Division of Operations Dry Dock dry docks Dutch Electric Emergency Fleet Corporation Engineering equipment established expenditures facilities fiscal foreign freight Government Gross Hog Island housing hulls July June 30 labor Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co marine insurance marine railways ment merchant marine Navy Department Number of ships organization owners Pacific passenger plants ports purchased by realty rates realty company registry repairs sailing vessels Section ship construction Shipbuilding Corporation Shipping Board Emergency Shipping Board vessels shipyards Special expert steamers Steamship Stenographer supply TABLE tankers tion tonnage Total trade transportation tugs United States Shipping War Trade Board Washington weight tons yards York
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Page 16 - 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 34 - An act to provide for ocean mail service between the United States and foreign ports, and to promote commerce," so long as such vessels shall in all respects comply with the provisions and requirements of said act.
Page 38 - That it shall be the duty of the board, in cooperation with the Secretary of War, with the object of promoting, encouraging, and developing ports and transportation facilities in connection with water commerce over which it has jurisdiction, to investigate territorial regions and zones tributary to such ports, taking into consideration the economies of transportation by rail, water and highway and the natural direction of the flow of commerce ; to investigate the causes of the congestion of commerce...
Page 25 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Page 6 - Columbia one or more corporations for the purchase, construction, equipment, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation of merchant vessels in the commerce of the United States.
Page 193 - An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year 1915 and for prior years, and for other purposes," as amended by the act of March 21, 1918 (40 Stat.
Page 194 - An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes...
Page 24 - If the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be of the opinion that any such existing specified service by water other than through the Panama Canal is being operated in the interest of the public and is of advantage to the convenience and commerce of the people...
Page 51 - Act and from time to time thereafter what steamship lines should be established and put in operation from ports in the United States or any Territory, District, or possession thereof to such world and domestic markets as in its judgment are desirable for the promotion, development, expansion, and maintenance of the foreign and coastwise trade of the United States...
Page 195 - AN ACT To establish a United States Shipping Board for the purpose of encouraging, developing, and creating a naval auxiliary and naval reserve and a merchant marine to meet the requirements of the commerce of the United States with its Territories and possessions and with foreign countries; to regulate carriers by water engaged in the foreign and interstate commerce of the United States, and for other purposes.