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...record shows that in twelve months from August 31, 1917 to August 31, 1918, there were launched from the ways of American shipyards 574 ships for the U.S. Shipping Board, with a total deadweight tonnage of 3,017,238. Of these, 325, representing a total deadweight tonnage of 1,941,875, were delivered during that twelve-month period. I cite the figures for this period because I happen to have them handy. You will agree that the rate of delivery here shown would indicate a substantial addition to the figures before the November date of the Armistice...
...yards delivered 53 cargo ships, a total of 634,234 deadweight tons; in 1941, when the Liberty ship program got under way, 95 cargo ships, 1,088,497 deadweight tons; from January to April 1942, as much as during the whole of 1941; by the end of August, 367 ships, 4,882,415 deadweight tons. (By contrast, in World War I, U.S. yards, building smaller, poorer ships, delivered not a single cargo vessel of the wartime program until after the war was ended...
...shipbuilding score for August: 68 new merchant vessels delivered, 753,000 deadweight tons. This was three ships (36,700 tons) less than output in July, nearly a ship a day short of the projected schedule if this year's eight-million-ton goal were to be reached...
...shipyards boosted deliveries to a walloping 731,900 deadweight tons in June, five times what they were a year ago and 15% above the 632,000-ton May record. This was the first time U.S. shipbuilders had ever passed one-twelfth of this year's 8,000,000-ton goal...
...February and March, was worse in April. How much higher was a secret over which shipping officials brooded and cursed. It made little difference to critics that the shipbuilding program was fabulous. The United Nations had to have ships. The U.S. had to provide them-8,000,000 deadweight tons...