Investigation of Panama Canal Tolls: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee to Investigate Panama Canal Tolls, Eighty-first Congress, First Session, on H.Res. 44U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 - 138 pagini |
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Pagina 7
... fact , the Governor , in his last recom- mendation of conversion to sea level states in there that all of that except a very small amount is for national defense , and should be so considered . If you retain a lock canal , there are ...
... fact , the Governor , in his last recom- mendation of conversion to sea level states in there that all of that except a very small amount is for national defense , and should be so considered . If you retain a lock canal , there are ...
Pagina 12
... fact , the commissaries turn in a profit to the Treasury every year , and the shops and other utilities turn in - well , before the war it was run- ning a little over a million dollars for all these business activities , which was a ...
... fact , the commissaries turn in a profit to the Treasury every year , and the shops and other utilities turn in - well , before the war it was run- ning a little over a million dollars for all these business activities , which was a ...
Pagina 13
... fact that the President thinks there should be an increase of tolls . General STEESE . Yes , sir . Mr. FUGATE . Looking at it from that view , is there some weakness about the operation that might be corrected that would help to lower ...
... fact that the President thinks there should be an increase of tolls . General STEESE . Yes , sir . Mr. FUGATE . Looking at it from that view , is there some weakness about the operation that might be corrected that would help to lower ...
Pagina 22
... fact that whenever anyone proposes some new Canal investment - a third set of locks , a sea - level route or an alternative Nicaraguan route , the shipping industry is always deeply concerned , for the industry has learned from hard ...
... fact that whenever anyone proposes some new Canal investment - a third set of locks , a sea - level route or an alternative Nicaraguan route , the shipping industry is always deeply concerned , for the industry has learned from hard ...
Pagina 24
... fact that the Canal is at least as much mili- tary as commercial . On this basis a 40 - percent cut in tolls to a rate of 54 cents per ton for laden vessels would still leave a safe margin to cover commercial operating costs . 2. The ...
... fact that the Canal is at least as much mili- tary as commercial . On this basis a 40 - percent cut in tolls to a rate of 54 cents per ton for laden vessels would still leave a safe margin to cover commercial operating costs . 2. The ...
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90 cents accounting American shipping amortized amount annual report Appropriations Army ARTICLE Bailey basis BURDICK Canal authorities Canal operations Canal Zone capital investment Chairman Clayton-Bulwer Treaty commercial shipping commercial users committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY construction cost of operation deficit DREWRY DUNLOP employees facilities figures fiscal foreign shipping forgiven tolls FUGATE future Government vessels Governor Hay-Pauncefote Treaty increase intercoastal shipping intercoastal trade interest charge LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LIBRARY RAR locks Maritime Commission MELLEN merchant marine military MILLER national defense Navy NEWCOMER NGRESS November 18 operating costs operating expenses Pacific Panama Canal tolls Panama Railroad Panama Railroad Company PARMELEE percent period present President PRINCE profit protection purposes question RARY recommend Republic of Panama RESS revenues sanitation shipping interests Soo Canal statement STEESE subcommittee subsidy Suez Canal THOMPSON tion toll rate traffic transiting the Canal treaty United Washington
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Pagina 21 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic or otherwise.
Pagina 83 - The Republic of Panama further grants in like manner to the United States in perpetuity all islands within the limits of the zone above described and in addition thereto the group of small islands in the Bay of Panama, named Perico, Naos, Culebra and Flamenco.
Pagina 75 - Treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof , and by His Britannic Majesty; and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington or at London at the earliest possible time within six months from the date hereof.
Pagina 74 - April, 1850, commonly called the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, to the construction of such canal under the auspices of the Government of the United States, without impairing the "general principle...
Pagina 77 - II which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power, or authority.
Pagina 103 - An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans...
Pagina 76 - Colombia, and the sovereignty of such territory being actually vested in the Republic of Panama, the high contracting parties have resolved for that purpose to conclude a convention and have accordingly appointed as their plenipotentiaries, — The President of the United States of America, John Hay, Secretary of State, and The Government of the Republic of Panama, Philippe...
Pagina 72 - The contracting parties will use whatever influence they respectively exercise with any State, States, or governments, possessing, or claiming to possess, any jurisdiction or right over the territory which the said canal shall traverse, or which shall be near the waters applicable thereto, in order to induce such States or governments to facilitate the construction of the said canal by every means in their power.
Pagina 73 - ... sufficient capital subscribed to accomplish the contemplated undertaking; it being understood that if, at the expiration of the aforesaid period, such persons or company be not able to commence and carry out the proposed enterprise, then the Governments of the United States and Great Britain shall be free to afford their protection to any other persons or company that shall be prepared to commence and proceed with the construction of the canal in question.