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HUGE OUTLAY SOUGHT BY ROOSEVELT
DIRIGIBLE TO BE BUILT AGAINST ADVICE OF EXPERTS (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Copyright. WASHINGTON, May 20. A request for expansion of the 1939 defence Budget to more than 1,100.000.000 dollars, which is a peace time record, has been made by President Roosevelt. * Disregarding the advice of high naval experts, the President asked for 500,000 dollars in order to start building a dirigible, which is limited in total cost to 3,000,000 dollars. The remainder is earmarked as follows:—16,500,000 dollars to start one aii craft carrier, two light cruisers, one destroyer tender, one large and twc small seaplane tenders, two oil tankers one mine layer, a fleet of two tugs, and also experimentation with speedy torpedo boats; 3,375,000 dollars for nine patrol planes of a four-engined type; 3,500,000 dollars for improving navy yards.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1938, Page 7
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137MORE ARMAMENTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1938, Page 7
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