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Show I IBM SHIPS TONNAGE CONSTRUCTION OF RECENT RE-CENT MONTHS EQUALS THAT OF ENTIRE WORLD. C Thf SooanrdWn,n' Wooden Ways Turning Out Ships. - i- vmerica's effort to meet Xewlork.-A. ie. tea - fu Genl,a su.miarme eii p(1 jn Brit- menace hass b n si;;dn,s of ish ndimrnlt) n.-.un , rdraS-tement before the dps , d that the government's mau, S.0t0.000 tons on March 1 was -8 cent on its way to completion. 1 hu-do hu-do t mean that 28 per cent was ,n water, hut that construction as vhoie had advanced that f ar t per cent of vessels actually bine Inn ,t into service, Mr. Hurley said. P The three government fabricating yards near Philadelphia, when 1.1 full operation, will be able to produce, M Hurlov said, more ships 111 a yea. than all the yards of England, heretofore the greatest shipbuilding country in tlie world. The high point in the curve of p o-,,ction o-,,ction has been delayed. Mr. Hurley pointed out, by a number of causes. Gradually these are being overcome, be declared, and before many months the peak will have been reached. |