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Show INCREASE SHOWN IN SHIP CONSTRUCTION Washington, July 26. Tonnage of ocean going merchant vessels being built or ordered in the United States July 1st, was 1,000,000 or one fourth greater than that. of vesels under construction con-struction in German yards Jan. 1, 1914, the date of the greatest activity in German history, the bureau of navigation navi-gation reported today. This was only about half the normal output of British yards in peace times, however. The number of ocean vesels -of more than 1,000 gross tons being built is 195. rr |