 | United States. Congress - 1922 - 590 pages
...administration of the merchant marine acquired by the United States as a result of its European war activities: ''That it is necessary for the national defense and...greater portion of its commerce and serve as a naval or militan- auxiliary in time of war or national emergency, ultimately to be owned and operated privately... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1922 - 1294 pages
...of policy carried in the opening paragraph of the merchant marine act <>f 1920. reading as follows: "That it is necessary for the national defense and...most suitable types of vessels sufficient to carry U* greater portion of its commerce and serve as a naval or military auxiliary ¡a time of war or national... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1922 - 606 pages
...administration of the merchant marine acquired by the United States as a result of its European war activities: "That it is necessary for the national defense and...shall have a merchant, marine of the best equipped and mostsuitable typos of vessels sufficient to carry the greater portion of its commerce and serve as... | |
 | American Society of Civil Engineers - 1922 - 1514 pages
...and adequate merchant marine. In the preamble to the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, Congress declared "that it is necessary for the National defense and...foreign and domestic commerce that the United States should have a merchant marine of the best equipped and most suitable types of vessels sufficient to... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1922 - 1282 pages
...of policy carried in the opening paragraph of the merchant marine act of 1920, reading as follows: " That it is necessary for the national defense and for the proper growth of its foreign ami domest'c commerce that the United States shall have a merchant marine of the best equipped and... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1922 - 1296 pages
...section 1 of the n chant marine act, 1920, generally known as the Jones Act, in the following terms: '' That it is necessary for the national defense and for the proper growth of its fore and domestic commerce that the United States shall have a merchant marine of best equipped and... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1922 - 1270 pages
...section 1 of the me chant marine act, 1920, generally known as the Jones Act, in the following terms: "That it is necessary for the national defense and for the proper growth of its foreig and domestic commerce that the United States shall have a merchant marine of th best equipped... | |
 | Edward Keble Chatterton - 1923 - 352 pages
...read the declaration of policy as stated by Congress : " That it is necessary for the national defence and for the proper growth of its foreign and domestic commerce that the United States shah1 have a merchant marine of the best-equipped and most suitable types of vessels sufficient to... | |
 | Archibald Cary Coolidge, Hamilton Fish Armstrong - 1924 - 732 pages
...efficiency of legislation and put their trust in the preamble of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, which says, "That it is necessary for the national defense and...greater portion of its commerce and serve as a naval and military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency, ultimately to be owned and operated privately... | |
 | 1930 - 56 pages
...enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slates of America in Congress assembled, That it is necessary for the national defense and...sufficient to carry the greater portion of its commerce and * * * ultimately to be owned and operated privately by citizens of the United States; and it is hereby... | |
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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... 
