AMERICAN SHIPPING
LOSSES DURING THE WAR OVER SIX MILLION TONS (Rec. 0.30 a.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 produced 7100 ships of 56,000,000 deadweight tons. He estimated that the United States merchant fleet after the war would be 68,000,000 tons, and he advocated reducing it to 17,000,000 tons.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25852, 24 May 1945, Page 5
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