Great Lakes--St. Lawrence Basin: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, Second Session, on S.J. Res. 104 ...Considers (79) S.J. Res. 104. |
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... cargo . With this brief introduction , I want to turn to a more specific discussion of the project , with particular reference to power . Senator LA FOLLETTE . Before you leave this point about 36 GREAT LAKES - ST . LAWRENCE BASIN.
... cargo . With this brief introduction , I want to turn to a more specific discussion of the project , with particular reference to power . Senator LA FOLLETTE . Before you leave this point about 36 GREAT LAKES - ST . LAWRENCE BASIN.
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... cargo particularly on the Great Lakes , that are the marvel of the world . Nothing could be said to exceed the credit to which these men are entitled to have when they have developed a carrier that travels 800 miles up , with no cargo ...
... cargo particularly on the Great Lakes , that are the marvel of the world . Nothing could be said to exceed the credit to which these men are entitled to have when they have developed a carrier that travels 800 miles up , with no cargo ...
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... cargo airplane carriers that the United States had and carried twice the cargo that the entire United States carried by air , Why are our air cargo rate charges seven times above cost at present ? Why do private railroad agencies fix ...
... cargo airplane carriers that the United States had and carried twice the cargo that the entire United States carried by air , Why are our air cargo rate charges seven times above cost at present ? Why do private railroad agencies fix ...
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... cargo lots . They should be stored in sheltered interior locations , in ready proximity to the industrial area surrounding the Great Lakes . Deepening of the St. Lawrence River route will give the Nation the dual advantages of ...
... cargo lots . They should be stored in sheltered interior locations , in ready proximity to the industrial area surrounding the Great Lakes . Deepening of the St. Lawrence River route will give the Nation the dual advantages of ...
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... cargo , foreign and domestic combined . The ship requirements , United States and foreign , to carry this cargo can only be approximated in the absence of detailed information as to its world distribution , and so forth . Roughly ...
... cargo , foreign and domestic combined . The ship requirements , United States and foreign , to carry this cargo can only be approximated in the absence of detailed information as to its world distribution , and so forth . Roughly ...
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Page 14 - The following order of precedence shall be observed among the various uses enumerated hereinafter for these waters, and no use shall be permitted which tends materially to conflict with or restrain any other use which is given preference over it in this order of precedence: 1 . Uses for domestic and sanitary purposes. 2. Uses for navigation, including the service of canals for the purposes of navigation. 3. Uses for power and for irrigation purposes.
Page 12 - Parties hereto, no further or other uses or obstructions or diversions, whether temporary or permanent, of boundary waters on either side of the line, affecting the natural level or flow of boundary waters on the other side of the line, shall be made except by authority of the United States or the Dominion of Canada within their respective jurisdictions and with the approval, as hereinafter provided, of a joint commission, to be known as the International Joint Commission.
Page 394 - ... sale to and use by industry shall be a secondary purpose, to be utilized principally to secure a sufficiently high load factor and revenue returns which will permit domestic and rural use at the lowest possible rates and in such manner as to encourage increased domestic and rural use of electricity.
Page 12 - Treaty boundary waters are defined as the waters from main shore to main shore of the lakes and rivers and connecting waterways, or the portions thereof, along which the international boundary between the United States and the Dominion of Canada passes, including all bays, arms, and inlets thereof, but not including tributary waters which in their natural channels would flow into such lakes, rivers, and waterways, or waters flowing from such lakes, rivers, and waterways, or the waters of rivers flowing...
Page 430 - India, being equally desirous to prevent disputes regarding the use of boundary waters and to settle all questions which are now pending between the United States and the Dominion of Canada involving the rights, obligations, or interests of either in relation to the other or to the inhabitants of the other, along their common frontier, and to make provision for the adjustment and settlement of all such questions as may hereafter arise...
Page 677 - Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation subject to the provisions of the act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each...
Page 12 - ... nor are such provisions intended to interfere with the ordinary use of such waters for domestic and sanitary purposes.
Page 551 - ... developing, coordinating, and preserving a national transportation system by water, highway, and rail, as well as other means, adequate to meet the needs of the commerce of the United States, of the Postal Service, and of the national defense. All of the provisions of this Act shall be administered and enforced with a view to carrying out the above declaration of policy.
Page 14 - The commission shall make a joint report to both Governments in all cases in which all or a majority of the commissioners agree, and in case of disagreement the minority may make a. joint report to both Governments or separate reports to their respective Governments. In case the commission is evenly divided upon any question or matter referred to it for report, separate reports shall be made by the commissioners on each side to their own Government.
Page 16 - Treaty, as amended, and the said understanding to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States...