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Show VOULD LIFT BAN FOR L'OREIGN SHIPBUILDING N" ASHIXGTOX. May 7. Chairman uriey of the shipping board announced -might that he had taken up with Pres-'lent Pres-'lent Wilson the question of permitting merican shipyards to build ships for ireigu account, so as to broaden their jportunities for obtaining business and irnish continuous employment for theii .bor. A number of American yards, particu-jiv particu-jiv those en the Pacific coast, have -rged that the ban against accepting ""weign orders be lifted so they might iter competition with foreign yards for innage to be buiit by Xorway and ;her foreign countries. |