Naval experts believe that the construction, which includes dredging, buildings, water supplies, landing fields, power plants and other faci ties, will be completed within three years.
Meanwhile, the Navy is pursuing a "speed up" policy in the case of 24 warships, including the two 45,000- ion "super" battleships, which have been laid down. The acting Secretary of the Navy, Mr, Charles Edison, has let contracts for half of the ships to private yards, and allocated the other half to Navy Yards, even before actual funds were available for the work, The United States Navy ñow has more than 100 warships under construction and more than half the nation's 100 Great War destroyers have been recommissioned in the past two months, Great War submarines also are being recommissioned at a rapid pace.
The Navy will be expanded into the greatest naval force on earth if the next session of Congress adopts the Vinson Naval Appropriations Bill. This bill believed certain of adoption, would provide $1,730,000,000 for naval construction next year in addition to $1,000,000,000 appropriated this year.
United States defence expenditures in 1940 will exceed $3,000,000,000 a peacetime record approximately $1,- 000.000.000 above the record breaking expenditures being made this year.—United Press.
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