Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1916 — Building a ship Every Day. [ARTICLE]

Building a ship Every Day.

United States yards are building a new ship every day. It is a record never before equaled in our country, and is the sequel of our stupendous exports at a time when world commerce Is upset by a world war. There are now building or under contract 368 steel vessels, the aggregate of whose tonnage exceeds 1,129,000, Ships bearing the Stars and Stripes have more than doubled since the war began, and the Increase is still going on at high tide. Prior to August, 1914, less than a tenth of America’s foreign commerce was carried in American ships; but at the present rate of building new ones the period following the end of war will see a totally different story. The business of transporting over five billions of exports and imports is a trade worth going after, and keeping after till ge wet It.—Philadelphia Inquirer.