Show the most remarkable change since the time of the napoleonic wars has come suddenly in the american shipbuilding industry the last day of december 1914 closed one of the poorest years the american ship yards have had in a decade today every shipbuilding ship building concern from bath me down to newport news in virginia is working to its fullest st capacity says the new re public one of the largest companies has orders sufficient to keep men employed full time for two to three years contracts have been closed for for ty eight ocean vessels and negotiations tiati ons are pending for sixty more prices have been advanced 15 per cent although that fact is not significant A british company has placed an order for the building of two ships in an american yard a thing never heard before and is likely to order two more apparently the american merchant marine has hs entered upon another period of expansion the ships ordered and those for which marine architects ire are how now drawing plans embrace not only passenger vessels if for or the coastwise trade but freighters forthe for the pacific and south american service big cargo carriers for the transatlantic business and oil tankers to go anywhere and everywhere |