HUGE SUMS
S FOR U.S. DEFENCE
NAVAL EXPANSION.
(United Press A*<ocintion —Copyright.) (Rec. 1 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Sep.lo. The Navy has awarded contracts for 201 warships, which will cost 3,861.000,000 dollars. It is estimated they will require five years to . complete. Simultaneously it is revealed that final .negotiations have been reach-;: ed toward the acquisition of 2400 “ aeroplanes worth 108,000,000 elol-' lars.
To-day’s naval contracts will increase the present authorised tonnage by 70 per cent., including seven battleships, eight aircraft-carriers, 27 cruisers, 115 destroyers, and 43 submaUtlig House unanimously passed the 23,680,000 dollar Dry Dock Bill, authorising a ten million dollar dock for New York, and a seven and n-half million dock for the Panama Canal area, also the improvement of the Boston dry dock.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 242, 10 September 1940, Page 8
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