The American Merchant Fleet: A War Achievement, A Peace Problem

Edmund E. Day

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1920, vol. 34, issue 4, 567-606

Abstract: Introduction, 567. — Drifting during strict neutrality, 569. — The free registry law of 1914, 569. — A period of uncertainty, 571. — The Shipping Act of 1916, 571. — Organization of the United States Shipping Board, 573. — Formation of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, 577. — Accomplishments during the war emergency, 579. — Reorganization under the Urgent Deficiencies Appropriation Act, 579. — The shipbuilding program, 581. — Accessions of tonnage from other sources, 584. — Government control of merchant shipping, 588. — Problems since the signing of the armistice, 592. — Liquidating the government's war program, 592. — Formulating the government's peace-time policy, 596. — Underlying factors of the present shipping situation, 598. — The immediate future an experiment in government administration, 605.

Date: 1920
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