American-Hawaman Steamship Co. v. United States. the Alaskan

Beginning in 1916, in the lengthening shadow of World War I, the Congress followed widespread popular demand to attempt to devise means of “taking the profit out of war,” believing that in a time of universal sacrifice a few should not profit immeasurably. That movement has taken many turns and courses; clearly it has not yet exhausted itself. As affects our present issue, it reached its climax in the “enhancement clause” first proposed in 1922, adopted with respect to government-aided ships in 1928, and given its present scope as an amendment to the Merchant Marine Act in 1936. By this the…