When did America 1st sell its ports?
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We never sold our ports.  The ports belong to us.  This is about contracts for who will run the port activities.
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Alaska was acquired on March 30, 1867 when Secretary of State William H. Seward agreed to purchase Alaska for 7.2 million dollars. Critics attacked Seward for the deal with Russia, which came to be known as "Seward's Folly." Alaska became the 49th state on January 3, 1959. By the way, the state paid for itself on the opening day of the Alaska Pipeline.
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America should acknowledge international law, which says these waters are Canadian. Hopefully it will be resolved amicably, but beware - America was sent packing when it attacked British North America (as it then was) in 1812 and 1819.
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Vespucci didn't get to America until 1497.  He was not the first.  It is possible, I suppose, That the Japanese made it, but there is no evidence to support that.  Some say that St. Brenden the Navigator may have been the first to land on America.
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The first city in America was Jamestown, VIrginia established in about 1620, so the colonists first settled here approximately 386 years ago. However, if your talking about the continent itself or when Indians first came here, I'm not so sure, but Indians did come during the Ice Age.\n\nBTW America didn't gain independence in 1776 thats when the Declaration of Independence was signed, they gained independence after they won the Revolutionary War
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The company was founded in 1959 by Davre Davidson and William Fishman as Automatic Retailers of America, whose business was in vending machines. ARA bought Philadelphia's Slater Systems, Inc., in 1961.\n\nARA's first international operation was the catering of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. The next year, Automatic Retailers of America became ARA Services. In 1977, ARA entered the uniform business.\n\nARA changed its name to Aramark in 1994.\n\n\nCurrent members of the board of directors of Aramark are: Lawrence Babbio, Patricia Barron, Leonard Coleman, Ronald Davenport, Thomas Kean, James Ksansnak, Joseph Neubauer, James E. Preston, Ronald Sargent, and Karl von der Heyden.
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Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is not buying out US ports.   The ports operation will be run by a company based in Dubai.  The company currently running the ports P&O ( Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co )is a London based company that has recently been acquired by Dubai Ports World, the UAE company. \n\nThe purchase and takeover of the contract to run the ports has been approved by a US government agency that investigates security risks of outside control of US companies.  The U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment, the agency, found no security risks.  \n\nThe company will just manage the ports, it will still keep the same workers, the same managers and the same equiptment.  It will hire the same longshoremen - the guys who unload the boats and it will keep American paychecks in America.  \n\nI have linked below to an article about the sale of P&O to DP World as well as links to the companies' web sites. \n\nRemember too that ports deal with international cargo - most everything domestic is moved by truck- and that international companies are involved in international commerce.   The US produces airplanes for the Chinese and UAE,  Mexico assembles a lot of toilets used in the US.  We are truly a global economy.  When the deal finalizes it will be a UAE company running these US ports as opposed to a UK company as it was last week.
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Could you meant First Atlantic Capital? I think there is a Canadian outfit by that name?
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The sale is to the Country of Dubai, not the above. It could effect the American public's safety. Especially in the Port of Houston,Texas USA. The water way is over 18 miles long. Terrorism is not over, it's just on break until the next incident. Wishing will not make evil go away.
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America is selling a lot of things. Not just lesbianism.
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1960\n\nhttp://www.atmmarketplace.com/futurearticles.htm?article_id=16524&pavilion=112
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He obtained his original fortune from his family's Cleveland-based shipping company.  He used that money to purchase the Yankees in 1971, and most of his current fortune is a result of the massive increase in baseball revenues over the last 35 years.
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Joined the ACC: July 1, 1991
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Who messed with USA first?
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Yes, I don't want to sell the American ports to OPEC. No way!
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If you believe the landbridge story connecting Asia to America, then Asian nomads first approached onto America and became the Native Americans after settling down.\n\nIf not, then the vikings were the first people to come to America with evidence. There are remains of a settlement up on Newfoundland which ceased to survive. Christopher Columbus (who was looking for the India in Asia), winded up landing in one of the Carribean islands and made that contineant famous in Europe.
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Alaska was purchased for $7.2 million in 1867 ($134 million in 2005 dollars) from Russia.  It has been a wonderful purchase since it has provided so much oil for the USA.  It was not well received when it was purchased.  But in hindsight, it was a great purchase.