Show U S FOREMOST IN shipbuilding vessels with tonnage of million tons being built I 1 washington reports to the bureau 1 ot of navigation made public show that american shipyards crowded with work as never before in their history tire are refusing all contracts calling for geow types ot of vessels md and confining construction to those types for which construction plans already have teen been drawn with merchant vessels with a total tonnage ot of about tons building or about to be started the united states now Is being outstripped la in construction only by great britain and navigation bureau experts see in the boom a prospect that the country countr may recover the position it held before the civil war when hen it was the foremost for emst nation in shipbuilding |