NAVAL BUILDING
HUGE CONTRACTS LET IN U.S.A. SEVENTY PER CENT INCREASE. IN PRESENT AUTHORISED TONNAGE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) WASHINGTON, September 9. The Navy Department has awarded contracts for 201 warships, which will cost 3,861,000,000 dollars. It is estimated that they will require five years to complete. Simultaneously it is reveal- • ed that final negotiations have been reached toward the acquisition of 2,400 aeroplanes, worth 108,000,000 dollars. Today’s naval contracts will increase the present authorised tonnage by 70 per cent, including seven battleships, 8 aircraft-carriers, 27 cruisers, 115 destroyers and 43 submarines. The House of Representatives unanimously passed a 23.680,000-dollar Dry Dock Bill, authorising a 10,000,000dollar dock at New York, and a 7,500,000 dollar dock in the Panama Canal area; also the improvement of the Boston dry dock.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1940, Page 6
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