U.S. MERCANTILE MARINE
WASHINGTON. Sept 24 The United States Merchant Marine which at the start of the war totalled eleven million dead-weight tons, now totals thirty-five million tons .comprising three thousand four hundred ships. Admiral Emery- Land in a report to President'Roosevelt stated this, added that afer Germany's defeat, it would take twice or three times their merchant tonnage to bring a weight of arms equal to those now blasting Germany to bear onto the Japanese.
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Grey River Argus, 25 September 1944, Page 4
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