NAVAL BUILDING
FINANCE AND CONSTRUCTION IN U.S.A. FIVE HUNDRED SHIPS WITHIN EIGHT YEARS. WASHINGTON, May 19. President Roosevelt will shortly ask Congress for a deficiency appropriation of 20,000,000 dollars to start the immediate construction of the warships authorised under the naval expansion programme, thus answering critics who contend that the bigger navy Bill, is merely a bluff. Under the present plans the United States building programme will reach a record peak in 1939 with over 100 vessels in construction, including six super-dreadnoughts, and giving 500 warships within eight years.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1938, Page 8
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89NAVAL BUILDING Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1938, Page 8
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