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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... lines who were opposing an increase in the tolls . There was only one item that might be questioned , and that was the cost of increasing the width of the locks , which was done at the request of the Navy . The original project called ...
... lines who were opposing an increase in the tolls . There was only one item that might be questioned , and that was the cost of increasing the width of the locks , which was done at the request of the Navy . The original project called ...
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... lines , to make the tolls pay the interest on that . That would be a question to be determined after the fact , when you have the figures in . Now , if a couple of generations later they needed a fourth lock , that would be a mere ...
... lines , to make the tolls pay the interest on that . That would be a question to be determined after the fact , when you have the figures in . Now , if a couple of generations later they needed a fourth lock , that would be a mere ...
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... lines are well organized . They maintain a powerful lobby , and they insist that the Panama Canal be purely for ... lines that are competing with us , and the French lines and the British lines , or whatever they are , get a free ride ...
... lines are well organized . They maintain a powerful lobby , and they insist that the Panama Canal be purely for ... lines that are competing with us , and the French lines and the British lines , or whatever they are , get a free ride ...
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... line , except that my thought is if we could make such a recommendation properly insofar as the Canal tolls are ... lines or somebody else . That was all I had in mind . I was trying to limit our field . Mr. THOMPSON . I think the ...
... line , except that my thought is if we could make such a recommendation properly insofar as the Canal tolls are ... lines or somebody else . That was all I had in mind . I was trying to limit our field . Mr. THOMPSON . I think the ...
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... lines . We say that the costs directly attributable to national defense have already been considered and are not included in the present capitalization of $ 516,000,000 . Mr. FUGATE . What do you mean by that , Governor ? Have not been ...
... lines . We say that the costs directly attributable to national defense have already been considered and are not included in the present capitalization of $ 516,000,000 . Mr. FUGATE . What do you mean by that , Governor ? Have not been ...
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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.