He supplied much of the data for the contentious shipping bill in 1915, and having been one of the moving spirits in its creation, he was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson as one of the five members of the United States Shipping Board during World War I.
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Ending a naval wrangle that highlighted the logistical weakness of the Canadian military, Canadian troops swung down from a helicopter on Thursday to board an American merchant ship that for almost three weeks had held three Canadian soldiers and 10 percent of Canada's armored might hostage on the high seas over nonpayment of a shipping bill.
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According to the lawsuit, the four companies discovered that the 64, 000 tons of chicken they supposedly owned had disappeared from warehouses and ships, had been sold to others, and that they had been duped with a trail of false documents, including shipping bills, warehouse receipts and even forged certificates from the U . S . Department of Agriculture.
