Show Torpedo Destroyers Ordered Washington Contracts Contracts Contracts for or the construction tion of eight torpedo destroyers destroy destroy- ers were awarded by acting Secretary of the Navy Winthrop Tuesday Each of the des destroyers will be 1010 tons tons tons- displacement and must be able tomake to tomake tomake make twenty nine and a half haIr l knots nots an hour They will be finished and de de- liver d within two years ears The n new w vessels will be pe propelled by combination combination tion Uon turbines and reciprocating en en- gines |