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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... port work during the Boer War ; and we experienced it in a still greater degree during the World War . Our only protection is to have an ample merchant marine under our own flag , subject to no call which has priority over our own ...
... port work during the Boer War ; and we experienced it in a still greater degree during the World War . Our only protection is to have an ample merchant marine under our own flag , subject to no call which has priority over our own ...
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... ports , nor even from one of our own home ports to another , but what shall be caught by our own fishers only . " An earlier provision of English law not only sub- sidized EARLY ACTIVITIES OF GREAT BRITAIN 9.
... ports , nor even from one of our own home ports to another , but what shall be caught by our own fishers only . " An earlier provision of English law not only sub- sidized EARLY ACTIVITIES OF GREAT BRITAIN 9.
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... port but sailing from there to her ultimate des- tination . Among the articles subject to this provision were sugar , molasses , ginger , tobacco , cotton , hides , skins , grain , lumber , etc. , the items on the list becom- ing well ...
... port but sailing from there to her ultimate des- tination . Among the articles subject to this provision were sugar , molasses , ginger , tobacco , cotton , hides , skins , grain , lumber , etc. , the items on the list becom- ing well ...
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... were no consuls to guard its interests in the alien ports which it entered , no line- of - battleships or frigates to shield the peaceful merchantman with their rows of shotted guns . The English 20 THE MERCHANT MARINE.
... were no consuls to guard its interests in the alien ports which it entered , no line- of - battleships or frigates to shield the peaceful merchantman with their rows of shotted guns . The English 20 THE MERCHANT MARINE.
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... ports closed to our direct trade . Great Britain retaliated these evasions by the colonies , with further ... port , bringing cargo worth £ 20,000 direct from Madagascar ( where it had 22 THE MERCHANT MARINE.
... ports closed to our direct trade . Great Britain retaliated these evasions by the colonies , with further ... port , bringing cargo worth £ 20,000 direct from Madagascar ( where it had 22 THE MERCHANT MARINE.
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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.