AMERICA'S GREAT ARMY
DEVELOPMENT OP SHIPBUILDING.
"Speaking as an editor, I may say that; America can put 6,000,000 men into the. lino in trainee without dislocating industry at all," said Mr. Hamilton Holt,, tho editor of tho "Independent, one of the most influential weekly papers in the. United States, to a "Weekly Dispatch representative. , , , >, "This country, in order to do as well as New Zealand has done in tho war, will have to put 11,000,000 men m the field. If necessary, by really fiinohins ourselves hard, we could do more than that. There is only one thing you can. blame us for. 'Barring inevitable mistakes, wo have done as well nected in the raising and training of our annv, in tho expansion and enjoyment of our fleet. Ii is in regard to ships that we are culpable, and it is in our turn.table we*hive fallen down. "4ftcr a fortnight's trip' to r^c,Dof the principal shipyards of the Atlantic Coast and the Gulf, I can say that by January 1, 1910, we shall be_ turning out ships like Ford cars. America, I think., now fully understands that ships will win the TO'.'" •
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 285, 21 August 1918, Page 8
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191AMERICA'S GREAT ARMY Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 285, 21 August 1918, Page 8
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