U.S.A. DEFENCE PLANS
NAVAL CONSTRUCTION BEING SPEEDED UP. UNPRECEDENTED STEP TAKEN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. WASHINGTON, April 3. The Navy Department today took an unprecedented step by calling for tenders from private shipbuilders for four destroyers and four submarines for which. Congress had not yet provided funds, thus emphasising the speeding up of the defence programme. TOOTS & CHEERS AIRCRAFT CARRIER LAUNCHED. FIFTIETH WARSHIP IN DEFENCE PROGRAMME. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK. April 4. The fiftieth warship of the national defence programme was launched at Quincy amid the tooting of tugs and the cheers of thousands of spectators. The vessel was the 14,700 ton aircraft carrier Wasp, the largest vessel launched at Quincy for fourteen years. The warship cost 30.000.000 dollars and it will carry 73 planes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1939, Page 5
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