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2A Legislative History of the Merchant Marine Acts, 1936-1944 1 (1938)

handle is hein.leghis/mchmna0004 and id is 1 raw text is: 75Tni CONRESS' }.HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT MERCHANT MARINE ACT, 1938 APR L 20, 1938.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. BLAND, fromithe Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, submitted the following REPORT (To accompany H. R. 103151 The Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 10315) to amend the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to further promote the merchant-marine policy therein declared, and for other purposes, report it back to the House without amend- ment and recommend that the bill do pass. GENERAL STATEMENT The committee held extensive hearings on the bill H. R. 8532, and after considering and amending that bill the chairman by direc- tion of the committee introduced the bill H. R. 10315 now reported, which is the bill H. R. 8532, as amended by your committee. The purpose of the bill as set forth in the title is to amend the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to further promote the merchant-marine policy therein declared, and for other purposes. A summary of the bill by sections-appears later in this report. (See p. 16.) Under date of November 10, 1937, Joseph P. Kennedy, Chairman of the United States Maritime Commission, pursuant to the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, transmitted to the Congress the Economic Survey of the American Merchant Marine which bad just been completed by the United States Maritime Commission (hereinafter designated as Commission). The survey deals with many perplexing problems affecting the ocean-going shipping industry. It is the Commission's belief that the survey will be helpful to the Congress in dealing with problems confronting the industry, and the survey undertakes to point the way for the development of an adequate and well-balanced merchant fleet. H. Repts, 78- vol. 2- 37

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