U.S. SHIP LOSSES MORE THAN REPLACED
(Received May 23, 11.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 23.
The chairman of the Maritime Commission, Vice-Admiral Emory Land, disclosed that 6,590,000 tons of American shipping has been lost since the beginning of the European war, but the losses have been replaced sevenfold. American shipyards have produced 7100 ships of 56,000,000 deadweight tons. Vice-Admiral Land estimated that the United States merchant fleet after the war will be 68,000,000 tons. He advocated reducing it to 17,000,000 tons.
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 202, 24 May 1945, Page 7
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