WALL STREET ODDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1940, Page 4

WALL STREET ODDS

ONLY FIVE TO FOUR ON ROOSEVELT MUCH LOWER THAN FEW DAYS AGO. INTEREST IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. All other news in the United States is dominated by interest in the Presidential election, which takes place on Tuesday next, the 8.8. C. states. The latest odds in Wall Street are only five to four in favour of President Roosevelt, which is considerably lower than the odds ruling a few days ago. Asked whether an additional programme of aircraft construction would be put in hand based on Britain continuing the war during the winter, President Roosevelt said it was likely that such a programme would be put in hand immediately after the election. He denied any knowledge of American bomb .sights having been made available to Britain. LAVISH PROMISES MADE BY REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, October 31. Mr Willkie, Republican candidate for the Presidency, today promised even greater help to Britain than President Roosevelt has given. In a speech he said he could gear up the United States production of aeroplanes and munitions. He said that in his administration a request for 12,000 more planes for Britain would not be even news because it would be so insignificant. If he were President, he said, planes would be turned cut by hundreds that were now turned out by ones. A message from Ottawa says that Canada will be able to ship complete planes to Britain within a few months. Hitherto, Canadian factories have built only aircraft frames and the engines have been fitted in British factories.