Excerpt from Shipping Act Amendment of 1977: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine and Tourism of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session on S. 2008; October 12 and 13, 1977 Shortly after I assumed the chairmanship of this subcommittee, I publicly explained in some detail the legislative program this sub committee intended to pursue in an attempt to restore the American merchant marine to what I consider to be its proper position in the maritime world. 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.