HUGE WAR EXPENDITURE
APPROPRIATIONS BILL APPROVED BY U.S. COMMITTEE (Rec. 1.30 p.m.) Washington, Feb. 17. ‘ The House Appropriations Commit- [ tee approved the Appropriations Bill, the largest in history, of thirty-two thousand million dollars, chiefly for war supplies, arms, ordnance, shipbuilding, and lend-lease purposes. The Bill includes 5430 million dollars additional for lend-lease purposes, bringing the total to seventeen billions. Admiral Land said that the tanker programme would give the United States the best and biggest fleet I throughout the world by the end of; 1943, and added that Nazi submarines were making a direct set at tankers. There were more tankers than cargoboats operating, therefore more tankers torpedoed.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 18 February 1942, Page 2
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