Fillmore Progress | 1916-02-25 | Page 2 | U. S. Foremost in Shipbuilding

U S FOREMOST IN shipbuilding vessels wito tonnage of million tons being built washington reports to the bureau of navigation made public show that american shipyards crowded with work as never before in their history are refusing all contracts calling for now new types of vessels and confining construction to those types for which construction plans already have been drawn with merchant vessels with a total tonnage of about tons building or about to be started the united states now Is ibeling outstripped in construction only by great britain and navigation bureau experts see in the boom a prospect that the country caunar Y may recover the position it held be oro ore the civil war when it was the foremost foro most nation in shipbuilding