Port of New York, Harbor and Marine Review, Volumes 1-2Alexander Rogers Smith Port of New York publicity Company, 1922 - Harbors |
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... feet long with a platform 30 feet wide extending from Bowery Bay to Flushing Bay , and on this platform to place two lines of railroad tracks and traveling , revolving cranes in sufficient number to take care of the wharfage . In the ...
... feet long with a platform 30 feet wide extending from Bowery Bay to Flushing Bay , and on this platform to place two lines of railroad tracks and traveling , revolving cranes in sufficient number to take care of the wharfage . In the ...
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... feet wide and 1,000 feet long on its northerly side , and 700 feet long on its southerly side , with a modern two - story shed and fitted with all mechanical freight handling appli- ances . A new pier at the foot of West Forty - eighth ...
... feet wide and 1,000 feet long on its northerly side , and 700 feet long on its southerly side , with a modern two - story shed and fitted with all mechanical freight handling appli- ances . A new pier at the foot of West Forty - eighth ...
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... feet has been provided . The width of the new channel necessarily varies . Through canalized rivers and lakes the channel is at least 200 feet wide . Through rock cuts in land lines there is a minimum bottom width of 94 feet , and ...
... feet has been provided . The width of the new channel necessarily varies . Through canalized rivers and lakes the channel is at least 200 feet wide . Through rock cuts in land lines there is a minimum bottom width of 94 feet , and ...
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... feet at low water , extending to lower New York Harbor , and ample warehousing facilities . The three prime essentials to any port - railways , deep water and ware- houses . There is no lighterage at Port Newark Terminal . " Direct Rail ...
... feet at low water , extending to lower New York Harbor , and ample warehousing facilities . The three prime essentials to any port - railways , deep water and ware- houses . There is no lighterage at Port Newark Terminal . " Direct Rail ...
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... feet and a moulded depth of 28 feet 6 inches , the loaded draft being 23 feet . " They consume a trifle , under 20 tons of fuel oil daily at sea , their fuel oil capacity of 1,100 tons giving them a voyage radius of 13,000 miles without ...
... feet and a moulded depth of 28 feet 6 inches , the loaded draft being 23 feet . " They consume a trifle , under 20 tons of fuel oil daily at sea , their fuel oil capacity of 1,100 tons giving them a voyage radius of 13,000 miles without ...
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Page 25 - They agree to and pledge, each to the other, faithful co-operation in the future planning and development of the port of New York, holding in high trust for the benefit of the Nation the special blessings and natural advantages thereof.
Page 4 - An Act to provide for the opening, maintenance, protection, and operation of the Panama Canal, and the sanitation and government of the Canal Zone...
Page 18 - Canal if such ship is owned, chartered, operated, or controlled by any person or company which is doing business in violation of the provisions of the Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled, "An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies...
Page 18 - The question of fact may be determined by the judgment of any court of the United States of competent jurisdiction in any cause pending before it to which the owners or operators of such ship are parties. Suit may be brought by any shipper or by the Attorney General of the United States.
Page 18 - When property may be or is transported from point to point in the United States by rail and water through the Panama Canal or otherwise, the transportation being by a common carrier or carriers, and not entirely within the limits of a single State, the Interstate Commerce Commission shall have jurisdiction of such transportation and of the carriers.
Page 33 - An act to authorize the board of estimate and apportionment of the city of New York to construct a tunnel for freight and passenger purposes under New York bay, between the boroughs of Richmond and Brooklyn, by improving and increasing the terminal facilities of the city of New York to maintain the supremacy of the port of New York,' generally
Page 18 - ... right of way, or by directing either or both the rail and water carrier, individually or in connection with one another, to construct and connect with the lines of the rail carrier a track or tracks to the dock.
Page 27 - Comprehensive Plan for the development of the Port of New York...
Page 18 - The commission shall have full authority to determine the terms and conditions upon which these connecting tracks, when constructed, shall be operated, and it may, either in the construction or the operation of such tracks, determine what sum shall lie paid to or by either carrier. The provisions of this paragraph shall extend to cases where the dock is owned by other parties than the carrier involved.
Page 3 - States, and all such materials necessary for the building of their machinery, and all articles necessary for their outfit and equipment...