SHIPS TOR AMERICA
r BUILDING, FACILITIES THREE CONTRACTS PLACED ' " i<" r ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. "(Received Jan. 14, at 11 p.m.) The Maritime Commission awarded three contracts totalling ■ 14,000,000 dollars for the construction of shipyard facilities to. enable the simultaneous building of 22 ships. It ■( was ; also announced 'that, the British were high bidders for 19 cargo ships with a tonn?ge of 200,000 from the commission's laid-up fleet, the cost being 4,375,000 dollars. ■>•,..
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24506, 15 January 1941, Page 7
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72SHIPS TOR AMERICA Otago Daily Times, Issue 24506, 15 January 1941, Page 7
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