Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman at the Launching of Five Cargo Vessels in South Portland, Maine
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OCR Page 1 of 4Mr. and we have here
Chairman, ladies gentlemen, Y assembled
to witness the launching of five 10,000 ton cargo vessels, which are
being built by the Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Corporation under a
contract with our British allies, and these five vessels are to be
delivered to them.
There are few things today which are as important as the pro-
duction of ships. Enemy subnarines have taken an exceedingly heavy toll
of Allied shipping. Measures have been taken to cope with the submarine
menace, and we all hope that they will be successful, but no matter
how successful they are we have great need for every additional ton
of shipping that can possibly be constructed. The capacity of the
United States to produce airplanes, tanks, guns and other articles of
war is exceedingly great, but all those things are of little importance
unless we can transport them to the various areas in which war operations
are taking place age to do that we must have ships.
Consequently, the United States Maritime Commission has been
authorized by the Congress of the United States to carry out the largest
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