The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . men were at workon it. Deliveries of new ships byAmerican shipyards during thelast week of June totaled 129,978tons, which was at the rate of6,758,856 tons a year. These de-liveries were made in advance ofother ships which were to belaunched in the next week, as aFourth of July celebration. Pro-duction in June amounted to280,400 dead-weight tons, makingthe total for the year to date,1,084,670 tons. The June produc-tion, which was at the rate of3,364,800
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . men were at workon it. Deliveries of new ships byAmerican shipyards during thelast week of June totaled 129,978tons, which was at the rate of6,758,856 tons a year. These de-liveries were made in advance ofother ships which were to belaunched in the next week, as aFourth of July celebration. Pro-duction in June amounted to280,400 dead-weight tons, makingthe total for the year to date,1,084,670 tons. The June produc-tion, which was at the rate of3,364,800 tons a year, was thegreatest output of ocean-goingmercantile tonnage ever completedin any one month by any came within 15,000 tons of theworlds record for shipbuildingmade by British shipyards in May,but in that record were includedall classes of vessels. Of themonths output steel shippingtotaled 262,900 tons, and woodenships 17,400 tons. On July 4, around the At-lantic coast from Portland, ]\Ie., to Portland, Ore., andon the Great Lakes ports ninety-five new ships went intothe water with a splash. This event marked a period. Gen. D a de POLYDUACiUIX Commander - in - Chief of the French Alpine troops, or Blue Devils. a detachment of whom came to America in 1918 V. V—13 185 ON THE WESTERN FRONT of great • achievement for the Emergency Fleet Corpora-tion and established the new United States merchantn^arine as a formidable war-time and maritime more notable launchings^ which totaled nearly 500,000tons (a figure which exceeded the tonnage lost byAmerican shipping since the war began by 150,000 tons),were held at San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, Newark Bay,Aberdeen, Washington, Tacoma, and Portland, Ore. Threesteel cargo-ships of 11,800 tons were pnt over the ways atSan Francisco, three steel ships of 9,400 tons at Oakland,two of 7,500 tons and one of 3,800 tons at Seattle, three of5,500 tons at Newark Bay, one of 10,000 tons at Elizabethand ships of
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