UNITED STATES.
SPEEDING UP SHIPBUILDING. AN ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK. New York, May 17. Mr. Schwab says that he expects the production of three or four 10,000-ton ships daily.
"This month," lie said, "we shall place one 10,000-ton vessel every day, by October two, and by the middle of next year three or four."
Government plants for building concrete ships, at a. cost of two million sterling, will be erected at Oakland, California, employing 4000 men. It is expected the output will be 400,000 tons, and the average launching one ship per week.—Reuter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1918, Page 6
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