New York, June 16.
Shipyards are expected this year to turn out, 1,250,000 deadweight tons of merchant shipping, according to the United States Maritime Commission, states the Washington correspondent of the "New York Herald-Tribune,"
It is predicted that with the country's rapidly-expanding ship-building facilities there will be an increase to 4,500,000 tons in 1942 and to 5,000,000 tons in the following year.
The commission put the cost of 705 merchantmen built or building under contract at $1,625,000.000.—Reuter
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