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Show Oil WILL DELAY SALE . j? OF LINER VESSELS ibHH WASHINGTON. Feb 20.- Chairman Lasker announced Sunday that non- lijiJiiiH i of the larger passenger liners now be- l&l ing advertised by tho board, together PIBBBBBb! Ith virtually the entire shipping board fleet, for sale to the highest iaLI bidder, will be sold until congress acts iHiBmiBH on the ship subsidy plan which Presl jf dent Harding expects to submit by the H end of this week. H The larger ships of the fleet include H the Leviathan, George Washington H and new vessels of the 535-foot and the H 502-foot class as allocated to the Mun J son line. Admiral lino and the Paclfie KH line All the vessels of 502-foot class. E Mr Lasker said, arc being advertised with tho cargo vessels and the former German and Austrian cargo and pas senger vessels In conformity with the Jones act, so that if favorable action Is taken on the subsidy proposal, thi bids for them will be in hand. |