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Show Huge llnek In he Unlit In A merle, and floated K. Ihe I'll I lip pine.. The navy department will aoon call for hlila for a huge lloatlug dock to ao-commodate ao-commodate a lil.iHKMun bnllleshlp, to be built In the 1'nlicd Hlatea and floated over to the Phillpplnea. Till, will be one of the largeat floatiug dry docka ever constructed. The amount available la 81.5SO.ooO nd Admiral Kndlcott of the bureau of yarda and docka ha. already completed the aprclHcalloua under which the bug atruclure will be built. Whether It will be towed acrou the Pacliloor across the Atlantic through the Hue canal will depend upon the place of It. construction, but In any vent the lowing of this glgunllo atrel tructure such a distance will be a formlduble undcrtuklng, |