TWO MORE BATTLESHIPS
ROOSEVELT’S WISH MESSAGE TO CONGRESS Received Mav 1, 5.5 p.m. WASHINGTON. April 29. President Roosevelt has sent a message to Congress asking for an additional appropriation of 25,597,000 dollars to enable a start to be made on the construction of two more battleships. Thus there is a likelihood that six dreadnoughts will be on the ways by January, 1939, not counting the three contemplated under the Naval Bill now being debated in the Senate.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 101, 2 May 1938, Page 7
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