In making the general announcement of plans for the building of the four new vessels, Mr. Dollar said that contracts "or the construc tion of the first. ship of the first group of four will be awarded before the first of the year and it will be ready for service in about two years, the other three to follow at intervals of year each, Mr. Dollar, who has just return ed from New York, said that the government had shown a splendid spirit toward the upbuilding of the American merchant marine by the enactment of the Jones-White Bill and that the Dollar line will mani" fest its good will by building chips to augment its already large fleet in the round-the-world and Trans Pacific services.
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