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Show AMERICAN EFFICIENCY. Acting on orders from the German government, the officers and crews of the German sihps interned in American Ameri-can ports inflicted such damage on the machinery of the vessels as they thought absolutely certain to keep thei ships out of service for two years. By that time they thought the war would be over. But American efficiency and American Ameri-can invention made the necessary repairs re-pairs in six to eight months and at the 1 cost of two hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars, whereas the Germans had figured the cost of the repairs at two million six hundred thousand dollars dol-lars and the necessary time at twenty-four twenty-four months. All' these ships, except one that has been sunk, are now carrying American Ameri-can commerce or transporting American Ameri-can soldiers to Europe. The Navy Department De-partment figures that the use of these ships between the time the ships were actually repaired and the time when the Germans estimated they could be repaired will be worth two hundred : and forty million dollars to the Govern-' Govern-' ment at the present rate of tonnage. One of the interned ships, the Vater-' Vater-' land, the largest ship afloat, is now in the United States service, renamed the Leviathan. Americans are able to operate op-erate this ship at a higher rate of speed than the Germans were able to do and with two hundred tons of coal less a day. The Leviathan has one American captain in place of five German Ger-man captains of the Vaterland and one American engineer instead of the chief engineer and five assistants that German Ger-man efficiency required. Ex. J- - 38... |