Annual Report of the United States Shipping Board, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1920 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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American International Shipbuilding amount assigned Atlantic awarded Barge Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation Board Emergency Fleet bunker cancellation cargo carriers cent charter completed Concrete Construction and Repair Contract steel contractors cost Dead dead-weight tons district Division of Operations Dry Dock dry docks Emergency Fleet Corporation ending June 30 engineers equipment established expenditures feet foreign ports fuel Hog Island home office houses hull inches installation July June 30 managing agents marine railway ment merchant marine act mortgage Navy Department North German Lloyd October organization Pacific passenger plant purchase radio rates reconditioning repair department representatives Sales Division salvage schedule September settlement ship construction Shipbuilding Corporation shipping act Shipping Board Emergency Shipping Board vessels shipyard steamers steel vessels supercargoes supervision Supply and Sales syndicate Table Tanker tion trade Transport tugs United Kingdom United States Shipping voyage Washington weight ber weight tons wood York York Navy Yard York Shipbuilding Corporation
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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 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 26 - The board may adopt rules and regulations in regard to its procedure and the conduct of its business.
Page 13 - 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 193 - An Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes,
Page 194 - An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain
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.
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 194 - Islands, which at the time of coming into such jurisdiction was owned in whole or in part by any corporation, citizen, or subject of any nation with which the United States may be at war...
Page 195 - An Act authorizing suits against the United States in admiralty, suits for salvage services, and providing for the release of merchant vessels belonging to the United States from arrest and attachment in foreign jurisdiction, and for other purposes...