BUILDING OF SHIPS
There are' more ships being built in England. At tho end of June a fair increase was returned over, the low figure of March. If wo 'compare June with June there were 587,142 tons on the stocks this year an against 299,640 tons last year. British shipyards are still Supreme in a world where shipbuilding generally is down.-In June all the world Jiad only .1,216,340 to^is building, of which nearly a half were being built in England. If we want to know how world commerce is faring we cannot do better than: watch tho shipyards. The improvement shown b small, but it is definite.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 94, 18 October 1934, Page 24
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107BUILDING OF SHIPS Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 94, 18 October 1934, Page 24
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