AMERICAN NAVY
CONSTRUCTION *BILL SHELVED. Washington, Jan. 25. The House Naval Affairs Committee voted to shelve tho Vinson Construction Bill until after the Geneva conference. A cable early this month stated: Representative Vinson, the new Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives Naval Committee, is to introduce a bill calling for a ten years’ shipbuilding programme which is virtually like tho recently proposed programme to which Mr Hoover expressed opposition. Mr Vinson’s bill requests the building of 120 ships, including four aeroplane carriers, nine cruisers, 85 destroyers and 22 submarines at a total cost of about 616,000,000 dollars.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 37, 27 January 1932, Page 9
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98AMERICAN NAVY Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 37, 27 January 1932, Page 9
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