WASTE AFTER WAR.
AMERICA'S PHANTOM FLEET. (CISITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —BS ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH,—i-GOPYRIQHT.) NEW YORK, June 5. Tho parade of the "ghost fleet" down tho Hudson wrote finis to the United States Shipping Board's tidowatcr advertisement of wasto after war. At one time there were 164 phantoms, costing a million dollars each, besides 200 which Mr Henry Ford bought for old iron. Some havo been burned or sunk, and today's movement will bo the last for the G5 which remain. Thev will be left _to rot in a secluded cove, thereby ceasing to bo the taxpayer's "eyesore.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20257, 8 June 1931, Page 11
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96WASTE AFTER WAR. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20257, 8 June 1931, Page 11
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