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Show : ; ; ! BRIEFS. . . '-by. Baukhage j ' J The 2,000th ocean-going vessel built under Maritime commission contract since Pearl Harbor was delivered, de-livered, with steam up, on Satur-. day, September 11. . A total of 1,425 aliens serving with the armed forces overseas were granted American citizenship by special representatives of the Immigration Immi-gration and Naturalization service. There are only 40 automobiles where 100 were before, 'according to the Public Roads administration, j j To maintain its record of meeting i j Allied invasion requirements, the Merchant marine during the next' year must recruit at least 35.000 experienced ex-perienced officers and men now holding hold-ing shore Jobs, the War Shipping ad- j ministration has announced. |