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...from its $23,958,504 profit on its first 181 Liberty ships. Remaining profit per ship: $25,000. The Maritime Commission declared this the standard by which all yards in the original Liberty-ship program will be renegotiated. The Commission estimates the cost of Liberties at some $157 per deadweight tons v. $255 for the Hog Islanders of World War I. Builders' profits, if kept to the Kaiser level...
...business cycle, cannot some deficit financing be risked to bring about a business upturn at the bottom of the cycle? To such a hypothetical question, Mr. Flynn would probably answer: Yes, the Swedes know how to spend on the downbeat and how to tax and pay off deadweight debt on the upbeat. But the U.S., like pre-fascist Italy and pre-Hitler Germany, seems bent on spending all the time. Mr. Flynn seems to imply that we just haven't got the brains of the Swedes...
...Creation of a pool of at least 5,000,000 deadweight tons to be laid up, possibly in the Great Lakes, and held for future emergencies but not "at any time operated in competition with private shipping...
Many a U.S. shipper these days is like a captain nervously watching his barometer drop to hurricane level. Shippers know that at war's end the U.S. may have quadrupled its prewar fleet to a thumping 50,000,000 deadweight tons, most of it Government-owned, enough to founder private shippers if unwisely used. What will happen to this vast tonnage...
Merchant Vessels: Work actually done TIME, August 9, 1943 was up 11% but ship deliveries were down about 100,000 deadweight tons from the May record. But "the 1943 objective . . . will in all likelihood...