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Excerpt from American Merchant Marine: Letter to the Chairman, of the Committee on Commerce Transmitting a Copy of an Article on the American Merchant Marine
In Chart I there appears but one line south of Panama, and that represents a desultory, semioccasional run of the Pacific Mail to Callao, 'the ships employed being the gallant survivors of an ancient fleet built in the old soft-iron days. It is true that there are American tramps encircling South America in the name of W. R. Grace Co., hit this company, huge and far-flung as are its interests, has not even scratched the' market, which was Once fairly well taken up by the' Germans. American shipowners did not trust the South Amen. C'an run. They alleged, first, that credit was unsatisfactory; second, that repeat orders were few; third, that a return cargo was uncertain. The United States in 1915 was avoiding South America from experi ences of the past, and had not yet Opened its eyes to changing condi tions. 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.
