UNITED STATES SEA CARRIERS
HALF WORLD'S TONNAGE UNDER STARS-AND STRIPES. ..,'. (Bee. April 8, 8.20 p.m.) - New York, March 27 ideUyed) -Mr. Hurley (United States' .Shipping Controller), in 'the 'course- -of a speech; said that - during the past eighteen months the Shipping-' Hoard litul eon-'-sinicted 3.G-li),-106 dead-weight tons of shipping. The United State's in 1920 would have 16,732,7(10 tons of ocean-going steel ships, of which the Government would own 70 per cent; ■ United States-shipping' in-1920 would bo cquivalent-ito?almost' half the world's merchant.tonnage.- - "1advocate," he said, "that ,the Government owned ships should be sold, to be operated by American citizens under no restrictions, other than the "fixing of maximum freight ratos."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. -.--.-
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 167, 9 April 1919, Page 7
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111UNITED STATES SEA CARRIERS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 167, 9 April 1919, Page 7
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