U.S.A. AFFAIRS
ALERT IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, May 19. Air Force Headquarters announced that an air-raid alarm in the New York area was sounded at 11.6 a.m. to-day. The “all clear” sounded at 11.25 a.m. No reason for the alarm was given. The National Broadcasting Corporation announced that its stations went off the air for 23 minutes. SHIPBUILDING PROGRESS. (Recd. 11.0 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 19. „ The “Journal of Commerce’s” Washington correspondent says: If the Maritime Commission obtains the steel needed. Mr. Roosevelt’s goal oi 15,000,000 tons of merchant shipping a year will be exceeded. While 36 ships were completed in April, over fifty will be finished in May, and ship launchings at three daily will be reached in Autumn.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 May 1942, Page 6
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