The Story of Our Merchant Marine
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Abbot, Willis J.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Story of Our Merchant Marine: Its Period of Glory, Its Prolonged Decadence and Its Vigorous Revival as the Result of the World War No more perplexing nor more baffling problem confronts the people of the United States to-day than the future of the nations merchant marine. For the first half century of our existence as a nation the sea was our greatest industrial field. Seafaring and international trade engaged our brightest minds and most adventurous spirits. By the middle of the 19th Century we had attained so preeminent a position on the ocean that we were the most important commerce carrier in the world. Then began a process of gradual decline until our overseas fleet had sunk to contemptible proportions. In 1913 less than ten percent, of our exports and imports was carried in American bottoms. The reasons for this decline are many, and, despite the clamor of politicians, not all are connected with legislation or with political doctrines. It is quite true that the United States has always been niggardly in the matter of subsidies, if not indeed absolutely antagonistic to that system. Accordingly we have seen the British merchant fleet greatly increased by government aid, while the German merchant marine, annihilated by the war, may fairly be said to have been raised to second place entirely by liberal subsidies. During this period the Congress of the United States stubbornly refused financial aid of this character to shipping corporations and our fleet, engaged in international or overseas trade fell below even those of France, Germany and Norway. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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