AMERICAN COMMERCE
DEMAND FOR MERCHANT FLEET.
(Received January 31, 2.30 p.m.)
NEW YORK, 30th January,
A despatch from Paris states that Mr. E. Hurley, chairman of the Federal Shipping Board, has announced that he is going back to the United States to examine problems in connection with the American merchant marine. He said the American people were determined to construct and maintain a merchant marine of sufficient size to enable the nation to be independent of other nations for the shipping needed to carry on the American foreign trade. >
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 27, 31 January 1919, Page 8
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