Florida Ship Canal: Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on S.1100, a Bill for the Completion of the Construction of the Atlantic-Gulf Ship Canal Across Florida

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 - 475 pages
 

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Page 80 - I hereby certify, that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of a resolution adopted...
Page 79 - The resolution will be inserted in the record at this point. (The resolution referred to is as follows:) [HJ Res.
Page 43 - The 1928 act authorized $5,000,000 which has been exhausted and the 1936 act authorized $15,000,000 to replenish these funds "to be allocated by the Secretary of War on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in rescue work or in the repair and maintenance of any flood-control work on any tributaries of the Mississippi River threatened or destroyed by flood heretofore or hereafter occurring.
Page 298 - After ninety days after this paragraph takes effect no carrier by railroad subject to this act shall undertake the extension of its line of railroad or the construction of a new line of railroad...
Page 298 - Act over or by means of such additional or extended line of railroad, unless and until there shall first have been obtained from the Commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require the construction, or operation, or construction and operation, of such additional or extended line of railroad...
Page 82 - Engineers, be reviewed in like manner by said board; and the said board shall also, on request by resolution of the Committee on Commerce of the Senate or the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House of Representatives...
Page 15 - Hon. HAROLD L. ICKES, Secretary of the Interior, Washington, DC MY DEAR MR. ICKES...
Page 322 - Flegler during the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century, at a time when Florida was largely an undeveloped wilderness. Prior to the time when Mr. Flagler constructed his railroad lines into the Peninsula of Florida, clear on down to the uttermost southern tip of the State, the land was there and the...
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