BUILDING PROGRAMME
US. MERCHANTMEN
MODERN AND EFFICIENT ,
(Received January 3, ll a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 2. The. United States Maritime Com* mission laid down an average of a ship a week in 1938 and will increase the programme in 1939.
The chairman of the Commission, Admiral Land, asserted that the Commission would construct the most modern and efficient merchant marine that naval science could produce. The first'year of a two-year programme would cost 315,000,000 dollars.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 9
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74BUILDING PROGRAMME Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 9
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