Word: merchants
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college men in the Intercollegiate Marine League for the establishment of which the National Marine League has already taken the first steps. Attention has been directed to the 70 of the TAO has been called to the severity of the emergency caused primarily by the decline of the American merchant marine and now heightened by the war's destruction, as follows...
...There never was a time when the merchant marine problem more insistently called for solution. To take the place of the tonnage destroyed in the war our government is seeking to build wooden ships by the thousand. But an even greater question is involved; for the stability of our industries, the very prosperity of the country, depends in large part on our overseas shipping facilities. On account of the lack of ships our exporters have suffered severely from excessive freight rates, unfair discrimination in favor of foreign competitors and, in many cases, actual loss of business. The great factor...
...play in the war, I cannot see how it will be necessary for her to do more than use her navy to its fullest extent, to build ships to be convoyed across the Atlantic, and to destroy the menace of the submarine. The building up of your navy and merchant marine, resulting in a destroying of the submarine warfare, will remove Germany's last hope of winning the war and I also believe that it will hasten the end of the war if Germany sees that America is really in earnest and preparing in every possible...
...system, with the problem of building up water transportation facilities. This policy has involved such steps as the expenditure of liberal subsidies, the enforcement of protective legislation with reference to coast-wise traffic, and the general encouragement of national shipping. Until the beginning of the present war, the Brazilian merchant marine did not figure conspicuously in foreign trade. But with the disordered shipping conditions that arose after August 1, 1914, and particularly as a result of the disruption of the pooling agreement between various English and German lines, the Brazilian merchant marine, especially the government line (Lloyds-Brazileiro), suddenly found...
...addition to these war measures, it was reported early this morning that the Collector of the Port of Boston had received instructions to immediately seize all the German merchant ships here interned. In taking this step the Government has greatly increased our merchant marine at the expense of the enemy...