Providing for Early Completion of River and Harbor Projects by Issuance of Bonds: Hearings, Seventy-second Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1932 - 234 страница |
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... charges via rail throughout almost the entire territory served by the Mississippi River and its tributaries , shall be approximately 50 per cent greater than within that territory lying east of the Mississippi River and north of the ...
... charges via rail throughout almost the entire territory served by the Mississippi River and its tributaries , shall be approximately 50 per cent greater than within that territory lying east of the Mississippi River and north of the ...
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... charged on our waterways . They say we get no return from them . The Monongahela River carries from 25,000,000 to 29,000,000 tons of traffic per year , mostly coal . The locks and dams which had been built by a private company were ...
... charged on our waterways . They say we get no return from them . The Monongahela River carries from 25,000,000 to 29,000,000 tons of traffic per year , mostly coal . The locks and dams which had been built by a private company were ...
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... charge , whether it be by contract or through direct Government activity . All maintenance of projects within his ... charges on the investment , and against them the recorded tonnage one by one ; and I find there are very few of them ...
... charge , whether it be by contract or through direct Government activity . All maintenance of projects within his ... charges on the investment , and against them the recorded tonnage one by one ; and I find there are very few of them ...
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... charges they are reflected in substantial savings to the commerce of the United States , both imports and exports . The estimate of $ 256,132,820 as the annual public savings on traffic of the proportions of the water - borne commerce ...
... charges they are reflected in substantial savings to the commerce of the United States , both imports and exports . The estimate of $ 256,132,820 as the annual public savings on traffic of the proportions of the water - borne commerce ...
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... charges on the present Government in- vestment in river and harbor improvements is as given . The immediate justification of these improvements , judged nar- rowly from the standpoint of direct public benefits , rests therefore in their ...
... charges on the present Government in- vestment in river and harbor improvements is as given . The immediate justification of these improvements , judged nar- rowly from the standpoint of direct public benefits , rests therefore in their ...
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9-foot channel adopted amount annual appropriations authorized Barge Line bond issue BRENT cent Chairman Chamber of Commerce Chief of Engineers Civic and Commerce coal committee common carriers completion Congress construction cost Dubuque economic estimated expenditures farmer favor Federal figures financing freight rate funds Government grain harbor improvements harbor projects haul highways House Document increase industry inland waterways interest Interstate Commerce Commission investment Iowa Lakes legislation MACLEAY ment miles Minn Minneapolis Mississippi Valley Association Missouri River navigation Ohio River operation Orleans Panama Canal petition Pittsburgh ports present president public savings railroads record reduced represent revenue river and harbor SCHEUNEMANN Secretary Senator NYE Senator SHIPSTEAD Senator VANDENBERG shippers Shipstead-Mansfield bill Sioux City statement steel taxes tion ton-mile tonnage tons traffic Treasury trucks United United States Senate upper Mississippi River Washington water competition water transportation Winona Winona County WIPRUD
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