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 páginas |
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... period throughout the year . Mr. FUGATE . The change in tides would be based on depth . The present canal is about 41 feet deep , is it not ? General STEESE . The present canal , on the sea level sections , is dredged so that they will ...
... period throughout the year . Mr. FUGATE . The change in tides would be based on depth . The present canal is about 41 feet deep , is it not ? General STEESE . The present canal , on the sea level sections , is dredged so that they will ...
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... period and of the subsequent capital additions , is by far the major cost item charged against commercial tolls . One barrier to a clear understanding of the Canal's books is that only the barest of accounting abstractions are available ...
... period and of the subsequent capital additions , is by far the major cost item charged against commercial tolls . One barrier to a clear understanding of the Canal's books is that only the barest of accounting abstractions are available ...
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... period 1935-39 the intercoastal operators suffered an aggregate operating loss of $ 4,000,000 as compared with their payments of $ 25,000,000 in Canal tolls . The war demanded for obvious reasons the conscription of the intercoastal ...
... period 1935-39 the intercoastal operators suffered an aggregate operating loss of $ 4,000,000 as compared with their payments of $ 25,000,000 in Canal tolls . The war demanded for obvious reasons the conscription of the intercoastal ...
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... period of time , if the condi- tions are changed sufficiently , the treaty no longer needs to be followed unless there is some definite time limit set in it . That is a strange point to me but it was brought up by a lawyer of some ...
... period of time , if the condi- tions are changed sufficiently , the treaty no longer needs to be followed unless there is some definite time limit set in it . That is a strange point to me but it was brought up by a lawyer of some ...
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... period , and the Canal would at the present time have come much nearer to the return of 3 percent on the investment than it actually has . In this opinion of the Attorney General in 1915 , the Attorney General stated that not only ...
... period , and the Canal would at the present time have come much nearer to the return of 3 percent on the investment than it actually has . In this opinion of the Attorney General in 1915 , the Attorney General stated that not only ...
Términos y frases comunes
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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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 103 - An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.