Landing Field on Governors Island, New York: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 12009, an Act to Authorize the Enlargement of Governors Island and Consenting to the Use of a Portion Thereof as a Landing Field for the City of New York and Its Environs. June 5, 15, and 16, 1936 |
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Page 78 - States, outside established harbor lines or where no harbor lines have been established, except on plans recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of, any...
Page 78 - That the creation of any obstruction not affirmatively authorized by Congress, to the navigable capacity of any of the waters of the United States is hereby prohibited ; and it shall not be lawful to build or commence the building of any wharf, pier, dolphin, boom, weir, breakwater, bulkhead, jetty, or other structures in any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, navigable river, or other water of the United States...
Page 12 - The most important need for any city to consider today in developing airport facilities is air transport, although the importance of aerial service is rapidly increasing. "The sites suggested as suitable airport locations for the Metropolitan District fall in six general localities which have been designated as follows : 1. The Queens-Flushing Bay Area. 2. The Newark Bay Area. 3. The Bronx-East River Area. 4. The Hackensack Meadows Area. 5. The Jamaica Bay Area. 6. The Wall Street-Brooklyn Area....
Page 23 - Without objection, it may be inserted in the record. (The telegram referred to is as follows:) SEATTLE, WASH., April 3, 1946.
Page 12 - The Committee feels that the problems incident to the development of suitable airport facilities for the New York Metropolitan District should be approached in the light of present-day knowledge, realizing, of course, that commercial aeronautics will undergo a process of expansion and development, but that no one would attempt to predict the ultimate stage of such development. As a result of the studies that have been made, it is felt that a general plan looking toward the development of a system,...
Page 78 - Federal laws for the protection and preservation of the navigable waters of the United States...
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Page 63 - Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., BF Sisk, John Young, Spark M. Matsunaga, William R. Anderson, H. Allen Smith, John B. Anderson, Dave Martin, and Delbert L. Latta. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. The committee will resume its hearings on House Resolutions 1100 and 1118. (The documents follow:) [H.
Page 1 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to...
Page 78 - May 6, 1892. An important decision was rendered by Judge Sage of the United States district court, southern district of Ohio, eastern division, relating to the changing of bridges by direction of the Secretary of War, under the provisions of the river and harbor act of September 19, 1890.