AMERICAN PLANES
SPEEDING UP PRODUCTION GREAT PLANT EXPANSION (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 The chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in the United States, Mr Jesse Jones, announced that plant expansion loans totalling 78,500,000 dollars were being made to the Boeing, Bendix and Curtiss-Wright aircraft companies in a move to break the bottle-neck impeding the production of military aircraft. The State Department announced that in July military aeroplanes valued at 948,000 dollars were shipped to Britain. Deliveries to Canada were valued at 1,227,000 dollars, while Canada had also bought 2,583,000 dollars’ worth of aircraft engines.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21199, 23 August 1940, Page 10
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98AMERICAN PLANES Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21199, 23 August 1940, Page 10
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