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Show SHIP CONTRACTS I ARE BEING PLACED WASHINGTON, April 21 Contracts for 22 steel freighters of a total of 20-1,600 tonnage were let today by the emergency fleet corporation. The ships will be built at San Francisco, and Wilmington. N I The ships will be of tht I.-hirwood tvpe Twelve will be of 9600 tons each' and others 9400. The contracts went to the L'nion Construction companv ol San Francisco and the Carolina ShiJ building company of W llmington. Contracts for four 150 feet sea-goin? tugs and for three 3500 ton wood ship-vvere ship-vvere also awarded. Whitney Brother; of Superior, Wis., will build the and the Wilson Shipbuilding compaa) j ol Astoria, Ore, the wood ships. oo |