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CHANGES IN WASHINGTON. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, January 7. The Navy Department disclosed that from today it has abandoned the official abbreviated designation “Cincus” (Commander-in-Chief, United States fleet). Instead the Department has adopted the form “Cominch.” No comment was available from the Navy Department, but officials hinted that the objection to “Cincus” is that it is pronounced “sink us.” The House of Representatives today passed and sent to the White House a Bill authorising an increase in the enlisted navy strength from 300,000 to 500,000 men and of the Marine Corps from 60,000 to 104,000.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1942, Page 6
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