NAVAL BUILDING BY U.S.
WASHINGTON, January £** After being sworn in as Secretary of the Navy, Mr Charles Edison said he was studying means of accelerating warship construction, and was also assembling data on the feasibility of constructing battleships of up to 80,000 tons. It was too early to reach a conclusion.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22909, 4 January 1940, Page 8
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