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I aM, M ay. ‘Advise’ ‘Government on Procedure to Combat’ ' . , Exorbitant Bids Be wet Wha h “tye tat eat < a3 “WASHINGTON, Feb. 17° ORS Hi a wear = b ting excessivey shipbuilding” “costs - bday p when be submits his formal, scribed as exorbitant and outrageous, Mids submitted by shipyards for; on of quotations exceeds by at zeast $500,000 the commission's high- est estimate of $23,000,000 for the ‘entire group. The bids range from $188 to $380 per dead weight ton, tompared with $200 paid during the orld War building program, when ces were at peak levels. “> - F Kennedy told the Senate Com- fmerce Committee yesterday that ‘the situation is serious and threat- jened to cripple the rehabilitation gram by which the commission seeking to provide the 500 mer- ten yearn. : Commissioner Emory 8. Land,‘ “ pretired admiral and the commis- sion’s technical expert, has been in- \westigating the bids “It was indi- Seated his report may be finished __jin time for Kennedy to discuss the ~ matter. at his press conference : f operating revenues would be sufficient to pay f or~trre ves wels in 3 Teasonable length of times bro, | { a . Clipping from Now YORE FOST EORWAR FEB 17 igss ip "Saad } a cape a ee t