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...shipyards had not yet begun to feel the worst of the strain. Last January Franklin Roosevelt called for 200 more ships, of 10,000 deadweight tons...
Finally in July came the biggest program of all on top of all the rest: an order for 541 more cargo vessels and tankers, and 25 seagoing tugs. It brought the grand total of construction up to 13,500,000 deadweight tons. Last week Jerry Land told newsmen that this program would be finished...
...present quarter, oil deliveries to the East will be 11,200,000 bbl. short, 8.8% of East Coast demand. The shortage for the winter quarter will be 23,300,000 bbl. (15%), for the first quarter of next year, 19,400,000 bbl. Assuming that 10,000 deadweight tons of tanker can haul 375,000 bbl. of oil a quarter, the committee translated these barrel shortages into tanker shortages: 300,000 tons this summer, 636,000 tons this winter. It figured that 264,000 of these tons per quarter could be saved, in theory at least, thus...
...internationally minded. Most pertinent fact about last week's report was its treatment of the oil shortage as a hemisphere problem, with hemispheric cures. It blandly pointed out, for example, that there are plenty of Italian, German and Danish tankers idle in this hemisphere-"aggregating about 50,000 deadweight tons in Venezuelan ports and 80,000 deadweight tons in Mexico-it should also be noted that there are about 100,000 deadweight tons of French flag tankers at Martinique." These ships (in addition to 50,000 Axis tons in U.S. ports), said the oilmen, would help the situation greatly...
...That afternoon Jerry Land and other Maritime Commission men told 16 U.S. operators in the coastal trade, that the Commission wanted about 32 ships-half of their seagoing fleets (3,500 deadweight tons and over). Thus, by legal authority given in 1917 (19 years before it was born), the Maritime Commission made one of its biggest hauls in the 1941 roundups of deep-sea bottoms. The requisitioned ships will be a whacking addition for the 2,000,000-ton shipping pool for Britain ordered by Franklin Roosevelt in April...