The Merchant Marine: "a Necessity in Time of War, a Source of Independence and Strength in Time of Peace"Macmillan, 1923 - 183 páginas |
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... British Merchant Marine . Though small in area and having limited products for export in direct trade with other nations , she became great through the possession of a vast fleet , and for a period controlled the carrying trade of the ...
... British Merchant Marine . Though small in area and having limited products for export in direct trade with other nations , she became great through the possession of a vast fleet , and for a period controlled the carrying trade of the ...
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... Years War . Notwithstand- ing the success of the British in destroying the French fleet at Sluys , it was a Pyrrhic victory in a sense , for the use of Britain's commercial fleet to promote her war 7 EARLY ACTIVITIES OF GREAT BRITAIN.
... Years War . Notwithstand- ing the success of the British in destroying the French fleet at Sluys , it was a Pyrrhic victory in a sense , for the use of Britain's commercial fleet to promote her war 7 EARLY ACTIVITIES OF GREAT BRITAIN.
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... British merchants awakened to their danger and obtained the enactment of a law which provided " that for increasing ... British shipping on the high seas . The effect of course was not immediate , for soon afterwards British shipping ...
... British merchants awakened to their danger and obtained the enactment of a law which provided " that for increasing ... British shipping on the high seas . The effect of course was not immediate , for soon afterwards British shipping ...
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... British laws in this field were passed in 1660 and 1663. Their purpose , as stated in one of them , was : “ the maintaining of the greater correspondence and kindness between subjects at home and those in the plantations ; keeping the ...
... British laws in this field were passed in 1660 and 1663. Their purpose , as stated in one of them , was : “ the maintaining of the greater correspondence and kindness between subjects at home and those in the plantations ; keeping the ...
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... British Merchant Marine . In 1701 England's mer- chant fleet had 3,281 ships , measuring 261,000 tons ; this represented an increase of about 300 per cent in a little over thirty years ; but this substantial increase is negligible ...
... British Merchant Marine . In 1701 England's mer- chant fleet had 3,281 ships , measuring 261,000 tons ; this represented an increase of about 300 per cent in a little over thirty years ; but this substantial increase is negligible ...
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Página 44 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 165 - 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...
Página 43 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, .that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Página 128 - Transportation is authorized and directed to investigate and determine as promptly as possible after the enactment of this Act and from time to time thereafter what steamship lines should be established and put in operation from ports in the United States or any Territory, District, or possession thereof to such world and domestic markets as in his judgment are desirable for the promotion, development, expansion, and maintenance of the foreign and coastwise trade of the United States...
Página 165 - 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 and import foreign commerce of the United States...
Página 72 - The jeers of the ignorant, who had neither sense nor feeling enough to suppress their contemptuous ridicule and rude jokes, were silenced for a moment by a vulgar astonishment, which deprived them of the power of utterance, till the triumph of genius extorted from the incredulous multitude which crowded the shores, shouts and acclamations of congratulation and applause.
Página 28 - ... and, generally, the merchants and traders of each nation respectively shall enjoy the most complete protection and security for their commerce, but subject always to the laws and statutes of the two countries respectively.
Página 81 - ... shall be imported in vessels not of the United States ; but this discriminating duty shall not apply to goods, wares, and merchandise which shall be imported in vessels not of the United States...
Página 43 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Página 17 - It is not probable that the American States will have a very free trade in the Mediterranean. It will not be to the interest of any of the great maritime powers to protect them from the Barbary States. If they know their interests, they will not encourage the Americans to be carriers. That the Barbary States are advantageous to maritime powers is certain.