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Show OUR MERCHANT MARINE' MA-RINE' More than 3,000,000. tons of shipping ship-ping havo b;erioullt In U. S. shipyards ship-yards an pan of our answer to Germany's Ger-many's plan to'wlpo out iuorchant mnrlno of her 'enemies, according to report of Emergency Fleet Corporation Corpor-ation for buslngsH to Aucust 31st. On Aunuht 1st there wuie 171 shipyards at work, of which 7C wero steel, 85 wook, 2 composite and 7 concrete A total of 5, 819,08) tons lu now afloat under tho control of tho shipping ship-ping board. Tho fleet corporalloln program calls for a merchant mnrlno of 2.G51 ships, of a total deadweight tonnage of 1C,003,501. There remains to bo built, excluslvo of what has been launched In September, 10,18-1,416 tons. The fleet corporalloln also Is building a "mosquito fleet," ot tubes fighters and barges totalling fifty thousand tons. Tho successful oporntloln ot this groat fleet nnd maintenance ,of tho shipbuilding Industry after tho war I will depend largely on our nation's, , policy toward our Ammlcnn ship ' owners nnd their protection from fotelgn competition. This quostlon la already receiving sciluus coijbIu" I creation. |