AMERICA'S SHIPPING OUTPUT
HEAT WAVE RETARDS LAUNCHING?.. (Rec. August 2(5, 0.0 p.m.)' New York, August 23. For the week ending August 15 ten ships of 51,700 total dead-weight tonnage were completed. Seven of these aro of steel and three of wood. The extraordinary heat wave reduced the number of ships launched during tho same poriod
According to an announcement by the United States Shipping Board more than a million and a half deadweight tons of shipping have been added to tho American merchant marine by various means sinco the nation's entry into the war up to August 16.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 289, 26 August 1918, Page 6
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100AMERICA'S SHIPPING OUTPUT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 289, 26 August 1918, Page 6
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