Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriations: Hearings Before the Subcommittee

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Page 137 - 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 29 - This committee as you know consists of five Members of the Senate and five Members of the House.
Page 137 - States; and it is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to do whatever may be necessary to develop and encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine...
Page 133 - Sec. 3. That after section 6 of the said Act as amended, additional sections shall be added as follows: "Sec. 7. The Postmaster General, when in his judgment the public interest will be promoted thereby, may make any extensions or consolidations of routes which are now or may hereafter be established.
Page 81 - Said certificate may be canceled at any time for willful neglect on the part of the holder to carry out such rules, regulations, or orders; notice of such intended cancellation to be given in writing by the Postmaster General and sixty days provided to the holder in which to answer such written notice of the Postmaster General. The rate of compensation to the holder of such an air mail route certificate shall be determined by periodical negotiation between the certificate holder and the Postmaster...
Page 123 - Co., under the provisions of section 5 of the act to regulate commerce as amended by the Panama Canal act...
Page 115 - Scotia) between which it is lawful under the navigation laws for a vessel not documented under the laws of the United States to carry merchandise, distributed so as equitably to serve the Atlantic, Mexican Gulf, and Pacific coast ports...
Page 1 - Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 o'clock am, in the committee room, Capitol, Hon.
Page 81 - ... all rules, .regulations, and orders that may be issued by the Postmaster General for meeting the needs of the Postal Service and adjusting mail operations to the advances in the art of flying and passenger transportation...
Page 81 - That such certificate shall be for a period not exceeding ten years from the beginning of carrying mail under the contract. Said certificate may be canceled at any time for willful neglect on the part of the holder to carry out such rules, regulations, or orders; notice of such intended cancellation to be given in writing by the Postmaster General and sixty days provided to the holder in which to answer such written notice of the Postmaster General.

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