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Shipping Board Operations; Hearings Before Select Committee on U.S. Shipping Board Operations, House of Representatives, Sixty-Sixth Congress, Second -[Third] Session Volume 13-14
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ...Show synopsisThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...other line of work that we know anything about and which we used to pay beyond the 10 per cent point. In addition to that, we found that a great many extras appeared on bills of all kinds, extras that we did not think proper to have been included in overhead--use of brooms, shovels, broken electric lights, and any quantity of materials which ought to be borne by the contractor were billed to us directly. So, in order to overcome that and to see whether other people were experiencing the same sort of troubles we were, we had a meeting of the principal ship operators and the principal ship insurance underwriters in New York, and we found that their experiences were just the same as ours, only worse. Their language as to what was going on was much worse than mine dared to be; and they assured us if we would undertake to bring these rates down they would be very glad indeed to help in every possible way they could; that they had been milked for a great many years, and no "individual one of them was strong enough to undertake this fight against virtually the combined repair world, and they would be very glad indeed to nave some one interested to undertake the fight if they could be assured of our backing. That was the beginning of the fight. After I found my experience was the same as everybody else, and we all agreed that the bills were excessively high, etc. Mr. Donald was not present at that luncheon; could not be there. But Mr. Thompson was present and took very keen interest in this thing, and interviewed these other gentlemen and found that the facts were just as I had stated them, in fact, I had not exaggerated at all but I had understated it, ii anything. As soon after that as we could we had a meeting of the repair firms themselves, and at...Hide synopsis
Shipping Board Operations; Hearings Before Select Committee on U.S. Shipping Board Operations, House of Representatives, Sixty-Sixth Congress, Second -[Third] Session Volume 13-14 – Trade paperback
(2012)
by United States Congress Operations
Title: Shipping Board Operations; Hearings Before Select Committee on U.S. Shipping Board Operations, House of Representatives, Sixty-Sixth Congress, Second Author:United States Congress Operations ISBN-13:9781150595868 ISBN:1150595868
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Title: Shipping Board Operations; Hearings Before Select Committee on U.S. Shipping Board Operations, House of Representatives, Sixty-Sixth Congress, Second Author:United States Congress Operations ISBN-13:9781150595868 ISBN:1150595868
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