Show shipbuilding NEWS GOOD some of the best news is found in ship production figures records are being made so fast in leading shipyards especially the west coasts kaiser yards that it is hard to keep up with them one yard recently completed a ton liberty ship in 40 days at this time some experts believe that the overseas transport problem can be solved by ships alone major de tor for instance looks forward to the time when a great part of our supplies men and equipment will be flown to their destinations in air transports of incredible size this he argues is the best way to answer the U boats to take our shipping of the sea and put it in the air then the submarines can prowl about the oceans from now on without finding anything to destroy to build such air transports in quantity would be a termen dous job piled on top of all the other tremendous jobs that the war demands but it may happen it if the war goes on as long as many authorities think A merchant ship for instance can make only three or four round trips a year to australia air transports could make fifty trips or more their advocates say they could be armored to the point where they would be flying battleships virtually safe from fighter plane attack |