Purchase and charter of foreign-owned vessels : hearings before the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, first session on H.R. 4088, a bill to authorize the United States Maritime Commission to charter and purchase available vessels of domestic and foreign registry and to provide necessary insurance and reinsurance for such vessels and their operations and H.J. Res. 167, a resolution authorizing the purchase of foreign merchant vessels for national defense, and for other purposes, April 17, 22, and 23, 1941.