"Washington, June 19. The House Naval Affairs Committee Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, to increase the strength of the United States Fleet by seventy per cent.
The measure would bring the total number of ships in the American Navy to 738 and would mean the addition of about 200 ships to the Fleet now built or building Construction of the 200 new ships would be completed in the next five to seven years at a cost of $4,000,000,- 000. They would. give the United States a Two Ocean Navy larger than the combined British and Japanese fleets of today.
The House Naval Affairs Committee aproved the measure by the unanimous vote of 17 to 0.
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