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The article presents incidents related to the U.S. politics and legislation. Politician, Thomas Clyde, in a letter to the "Evening Post, asks the opponents of the present Ship-Subsidy Bill to draft and present a better measure for the revival of U.S. merchant marine before condemning before U.S. Congress. A tremendous effort was made to manufacture public sentiment in favor of government subsidies. It prompts other industries, cliques, and sections to demand similar benefactions from the public funds It makes the amount of the subsidy a matter of hugger-mugger between the beneficiaries and Congressmen, thus tending to corruption. Another incident focuses on the bill which proposes to put a prohibitive tax on oleomargarine in California.

The article discusses political developments from around the world. Independent voters are considered not only politically wise, but also morally right. They are not greatly affected by the appeals of Politicians and their organs. But they are not insensible to the criticism of men of decent character and respectable intellect, who ridicule them as unpractical. The article further discusses ship subsidies. The Republican Campaign Text-Book for 1900 contains six pages in favor of the Ship Subsidy Bill which failed of consideration at the last session of the U.S. Congress.

This article presents information on various socio-political issues in the U.S. "Don't Give Up the Ship," this words are printed on the titlepage of a pamphlet which the promoters of the ship-subsidy bill are now circulating in the interest of that measure. The pamphlet in question is titled "United States Merchant Marine on the Oceans," and is published in Cleveland, Ohio. It embraces letters from a large number of persons in favor of the Hanna-Payne bill, all of them in favor of the policy of paying money out of the public Treasury to carry on a private industry. One of the greatest charms connected with the recently published letters of novelist Robert Louis Stevenson was that of finding them actually existing. Men like him had not left off letter-writing then. The discovery was of itself a delight in this age of postal-cards and telegraph-blanks.

The article presents authoritative analyses and forecasts for the U.S. business sector, as of March 1925. It discusses the New York State Industrial Commissioner's report for January which indicates that factory employment was lower than in December 1924, the statement of the U.S. Federal System that reflects the effect of gold exports, and the advances in the price of crude oil and refined products. It tackles the subject of a ship subsidy which has come before the U.S. Senate.

The article presents political updates of the world as of December 16, 1909. Those advocates of ship subsidies who are fond of asserting, in a conveniently broad and general way that the great shipping business of Great Britain is maintained by a system of subsidies might profit by a discussion. The discussion turns on the probable effect of the protectionist proposals known by the name of "tariff reform" upon the prosperity of the shipping business. In another update the action taken by the Board of Overseers of Harvard University in relation to the elective system furnishes impressive evidence both of the ripeness of the time for the contemplated changes and of the firm grasp with which University President has taken hold of his new duties.

The article focuses on news related to political issues at international level. For a long while scholar Jonah Barrington's recollections of the humors of Irish dueling and faction-fighting in his youth, at the close of the last century, were considered the best reading of their kind in English literature. But of late the Southerners have been far outdoing the Irish in this department of human comedy. Shipping subsidies in the U.S. came to an end in 1875, when Congress, by an almost unanimous vote, rescinded the contracts with the Pacific Mail Company, on the ground of fraud, but it is proposed to bring it back.

The article presents a discussion on the House Bill. The House Bill provides for a commission to report on the American merchant marine. The commission will travel all the way to the U.S. and will be dined by boards of trade and city councils, but will add nothing to the literature of the subject. The Library of Congress already contains nearly 2,000 works on ship subsidies. The article further discusses the hike in housing rents in Harlem, Bronx, Brooklyn and suburban towns.

The article discusses some of the political updates related to the U.S. The best thing that the Fifty-sixth U.S. Congress did was to enact the Gold Standard Act, which marks the longest step yet taken toward the permanent establishment of a sound financial system. The next best thing was the failure to pass the impudent Shipping-Subsidy Bill. The bargain has been carried through; there is perfect frankness about the means by which Democratic opposition in the U.S. Senate to the Administration's policy in Cuba and the Philippines was overcome. There has been same sharp comment in the War Department and in the service newspapers upon the looseness and carelessness or the language of the law for the increase of the army, which was signed on February 2.

The article discusses some of the political updates related to the U.S. With the promise of an amicable settlement of the Cuban question, there is a suspicious warming to the idea on the part of Republicans who still favor the Shipping-Subsidy Bill. An extra session of the U.S. Congress called to consider Cuban and Philippine problems might turn for relief to the more agreeable task at voting money cut of the Treasury to pay the campaign debts. January foreign trade reports announce that all previous records of export balances for the month have been surpassed. The rise of annual outward trade balance in 1897 and 1898 was due to an almost unprecedented decrease in merchandise imports and enormous sales of grain, at high prices, to famine-stricken Europe.

This article presents brief descriptions of various recent socio-political issues and developments. It first discusses the new Cuban tariff which is to go into force on January 1, 1899. This new tariff plan is expected to raise sufficient revenue, then to afford Cubans every advantage possible in the struggle to restore their prostrate agriculture. In this context, Spain announces that she will pay the January coupon of the Cuban debt, and hopes to make equitable arrangements with the bondholders to discharge or fund the whole. The Minister of Finance forecasts a great revival of industry and commerce within the Peninsula, now that the long agony of insurrection and war is over. The article further focuses on Senator Mark Hanna's straightforward method of coming promptly to the front with his bill for ship subsidies in the U.S.

The article focuses on various political developments around the world in 1910. The first article focuses on the United States President William Howard Taft's success in bringing a tariff agreement with Canada. Another article focuses on the failure of ship subsidy bill in the United States Congress. It is a proposal that the United States shall take from its treasury the cash sufficient to make unprofitable enterprises profitable. In another article there is a focus on the organic act of July 1902. The United States Congress prescribed that no person should purchase more than forty acres of land in Philippines.

Presents letters to editor referencing on the articles published in the previous issues. Reference to "Ship Building Subsidies" focuses on agitation for government subsidies to aid mercantile marines in present scenario; Critique on the book "Oliver Wendell Holmes--Doctor and Gentleman," that focuses on the pleasing diversions the of a desultory traveler in England; Account of the book "A Forgotten Sociologist" that focuses on the concepts related to sociology like doctrine of free trade and democratic society.

The article focuses on some recent political developments as of October 21, 1909. The meeting of the President of the United States and the President of Mexico signifies more than a formal act of international courtesy. It typifies not only good feeling between the two countries, but the kind of relation that ought to exist between the great republic of the North and all the republics to the South of her. It is now sixty years since what the monument at Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico calls the North American invasion dismembered Mexico, and it has taken all that time, with correct conduct on part of the United States, to free the minds of Mexicans from the fear of further aggression. U.S. President William Howard Taft's advocacy of ship subsidies does not meet with approval in the editorial columns of the central Republican organ of his own State, the Ohio State Journal. It is flatly opposed to subsidies as such, and not willing to accept them under some euphemistic disguise.

The article focuses on the development of freight rates and maritime transport costs. It discusses developments in maritime freight rates in various market segments, including containerized trade, liquid bulk and dry bulk shipping in 2012 and in early 2013. It reports on significant events leading to major price fluctuations and gives a selective outlook on future developments of freight markets. It also presents an overview of recent developments in ship finance.

The article offers information on maritime administration in the U.S. Topics discussed include Maritime Security Program (MSP), Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement (VISA) and Ready Reserve Force (RRF). Also mentioned is the maritime's cargo preference, Piracy Suppression Act of 2012 and U.S. maritime ports.

This article presents information on the export credit market in reference to the shipping industry. Under the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development shipbuilding understanding, export credit agencies are able to offer support at the commercial interest reference rate for periods of up to 12 years. The agreement is designed to make export credit finance more competitive, reducing the tendency for governments to assist their industries with direct subsidies, and the strategy appears successful with a busy pipeline of deals backed up. With the world's shipbuilding industry concentrated in Asia and with 34% of tonnage on order to South Korean yards, the Export-Import Bank of Korea has quickly become one of the world's largest shipping banks.

The article focuses on strike threats launched against the shipping industry following the expiration of the 1934 working agreement on October 1, 1936. It cites the efforts of the new Maritime Commission to administer the Ship Subsidy Act. It details the implications of the move of steamship companies to offer peace to the International Longshoremen's Association. The offers of the joint negotiating committee include cash overtime for all seagoing unions.

The article discusses the subsidization of wheat exports in the U.S. launched in August 1938. It is stated that a demonstration regarding the nation's fight to regain its export market for wheat is reflected in its subsidization program. It is mentioned that other exporting nations are being urged by the U.S. to control shipments after spending 15,000,000 dollars to subsidize wheat exports.

This section offers news briefs on the administration of U.S. President Warren Harding as of November 11, 1922 which involves the Ship Subsidy Bill, a proposed Constitutional amendment to end the issuing of tax exempt securities and the Near East Peace Conference set for November 13 in Switzerland.

The article discusses the views of several leaders in the U.S. on issues affecting the economy. In his telegram to National City Bank of New York president Charles E. Mitchell, President Warren Harding expressed his confidence that the country is entering an era of good times. Munson Steamship Lines president Frank C. Munson says the U.S. has long been paying a ship subsidy to make up the losses of the ocean services of the Shipping Board.

The article explores whether American Navy personnel should operate merchant marine vessels. The dilemma of placing U.S. seamen in charge of merchant ships has exposed the difference between a soldier's bonus and a ship subsidy. The former is a form of bounty given to a soldier who has sacrificed every opportunity for personal reward that might have arisen in a civil contract whereas the latter is government gratuity to ship owners for the repair or rebuild of unseaworthy vessels.

The article reports on support received by ship operators from some U.S. senators regarding ship subsidies in 1953.

The article looks at subsidized U.S. steamships as of December 15, 1950 focusing on Veep John Gehan, head of marine cargo company American Export, the Association of American Ship Owners, and chemicals and materials company W. R. Grace & Co. Special attention is paid to J. Peter Grace, chairman of W. R. Grace & Co.

The article reports on the long-term replacement programs of shipbuilding companies in the U.S. It notes that the adoption of such plans for passenger ships are caused by the shipbuilder's desire to obtain government subsidies under the Maritime Act of 1936 and their increasing concerns about block obsolescence. Among the companies receiving operating subsidies are Moore-McCormack Lines, Grace Line and Oceanic Steamship Co.

The article presents the Salt Lake City's Overstock.com, an online retailer for products for the home making the free shipping benefit offering at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic requiring no subscription or annual fee and requiring no minimum purchase price.

Reports that the U.S. fiscal 1990 budget proposal calls for raising federal shipping subsidies in the period 1990-1999. Lobbying campaign by CSX Corp.; Amount to be given to CSX's Sea-Land Corp. unit.

The article discusses issues related to the legislation introduced by Representative Mario Biaggi that seeks to expand the government subsidy program by approximately $100 million a year and let more U.S. shipping companies participate. Companies receiving subsidies and their five unsubsidized competitors have collaborated to push for the legislative bailout. However, the administration of President Ronald Reagan is in opposition of the legislation.

The article reports on the decision of the French Ministry of Transport to terminate the subsidies to the luxury liner France, which is considered as the longest ship in the world. It states that the ship has lost about 24 million dollars in 1973 because of its failure to divert many passengers from the jets. It also notes that the 80 million dollar-liner will be sold at the price of about 15 million dollars.

The article discusses the U.S. maritime industry's fight to keep government subsidy. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Nick Johnson as Maritime Administrator, with an aim of changing the subsidy system. However, shipowners, shipbuilders and labor unions have been opposing plans to change the system. Nick Johnson has resigned to become a member of the Federal Communications Commission.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article commenting on shipping subsidies in the August 1, 1965 issue.

The article discusses the apparent graft in the shipment of mail involving post office money being paid to shipping lines to carry non-existing mail.

The article focuses on the defeat suffered by U.S. President Warren Harding in Congress in 1923. The legislative body has killed his Ship Subsidy Bill. Also noted is the opposition of Congress to some of his appointments including Attorney General Harry Daugherty. His Republican Party has failed to support his foreign policy.

The article focuses on the use of the filibuster method to kill the administration Ship Subsidy bill in the U.S. in February 1923. In a filibuster, physical exhaustion is the only thing that can stop a senator from speaking on any subject at any time and at any length. Among the topics discussed in the speeches of several senators were the purchase of the West Indies and recognition of Russia. The death of the subsidy is also blamed on the farm bloc in the Senate.

The article focuses on the need to sell idle vessels of the U.S. Shipping Board as a result of the failure of the Ship Subsidy bill to pass in Congress in February 1923.

The article offers information on the 1922 U.S. Government with then U.S. President Warren G. Harding and his plans for the ship subsidy bill and other legislation like the Capper-Tincher bill and his prayer for a re-assembly of U.S. Congress by November 15, 1922.

The article reports on the agreement among U.S. Congressional leaders to pass the tariff, bonus and ship subsidy bills.

This section offers government and regulatory news briefs in the U.S. as of June 24, 1922 including President William Harding's insistence that the ship subsidy bill of the administration should be enacted, introduction of a bill to regulate future trading on grain exchanges, and call of Harding to the Congress to repay taxes illegally collected by the government.

The article shares comments on several economic-related issues including economic recovery of Germany, shipping subsidies in the U.S., and legality of Steel Corp.