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Show BETHLEHEM STEEL GETS BIG CONTRACT XEW YORK, Mandi 10. Another large shipping contract hns been obtained ob-tained by the Bethlehem Steel company, it was learned tooay, for cargo-carrying vessels of ti.TOO tons and over, involving an expenditure nf $i:i,00.rl00. 7t is understood un-derstood they are to be built for the Cumm I Steamship company. Construction Construc-tion cf the ships will require about (i-v fOO tons of steel, it is estimated. The Bethlehem company is said to have sublet sub-let the contract to yards other than t hose opera ted bv its subsidiary companies com-panies on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. |