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Show AMERICAN FLAG RESTORED TO 4 1 OCEAN ROUTES 1 WASHINGTON, Dee. 14. The American flap has boen restored to 41 of thf world s great ocoau tradO routes, the shipping board records In: its annual report to -congress Mosl of (lie shlpfl are plying trans Ml nin and South American lanes, th roporl Bald, bul BOme Ol them are In waters! J where the Stars and Stripes has not brrn wcn on roniiiiercial vr?r.el. for, more than B grnoration. Distribution of ibo government! flret of i.-.'m esselfl aggregating 6,-791, 6,-791, oso ton shows 22 vessels in tho northern Europe trade The irans-i i Atlantic trade was next ith 197 ships i of 1,204.953 tons engaged in the food! relief service and 176 ships with a tonnac1 of 1,175,614 were still in use! by the army on June 30 last. Another 1S.S vessels were engaced in' the South Aerican trade; 7 phinc to: Drazil, .92 to La Data and 23 to the west coast of South America. Sixty j vessels were making regular sailings1 to southern European ports 14 to Afrira, 6 to India 77 in th trans-Fa- iclfic 143 to tho West Indies and ii in the coastwise and New England coal trade. The total gross revenues for the year were approximately $500,000,000 as compared with $80,000,( for 1918, but no comprehensive statement j showing thc profi' or loss was avail' able. Expenditures totaled ?2 SI 2,692, "02 ' compared with 8770,694,057 for 1918,' $1,971,367,078 brine for ship construe Hon. Next heaviest was for inventory1 of materials amounting to $177,734,64S and plant and property expenses were placed at $167. 7".. ".9 II cost $62,065,935 to furnish ade I quate housing accommodations for1 the employes of 2.4 shipyards and l tiirbin.-- pjant, S.644 houses, 91 flortni-tori-s. 8 hotels. 6 boarding houses, 849 apartment houses, stores and oilier Structures, havine been built, 'he report re-port said. Loans to utility companies on hous ing projects aggregated over $955,000.1 When the armistice was signed the United States has become the leading shipbuilding nation of the world in tonnage capacity and rapidity of construction con-struction the report said. During the second quarter ot 1919. 48 cent of thc I world tonnagf under construction was in American yards mrludin' 14 12 per cent of the world's steel ship construction. construc-tion. Vessels of the 10,000. 12,500 and 15,-000 15,-000 deadweight tons classes will be tho most efficient to meet modern trade requirements, the report 'aid, and pro i vision for steaming radius of 13.000 nautical miles ha been in new American Amer-ican ships The program for th establishment es-tablishment of oil fuel stations calls' for l ink facilities at St. Thomas. Vir gin Islands, Honolulu, Manila, Ponta I 'cicada. Azores, Bizerta, Tunis and Constantinople. |