The Archive · 1940

Plan Curtailed

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Tonnage Halved by Cut Of $500,000,000 from $1,300,000,000 Scheme Bake with ROYAL avoid costly baking failures, Washington, Jan. 19.

Mr. Carl Vinson, Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, yesterday cut his proposed $1,300,- 000000 Naval Construction Bill to $800,000,00 and eliminated the building of 34 destroyers from it.

The Democratic Representative of Georgia notified the committee that he had sharply modified his original proposal to increase naval tonnage 25 per cent. and now contemplated only 41 new warships instead of the original 77.

Mr. Vinson's revised proposal calls for new naval tonnage of 218,000.|instead of 400000. This includes aircraft carriers, of which 75,000 tons will be constructed under the new bill This is sufficient for the construction of three 24,000-ton vessels.

The revised bill will allow for the construction of 110,000 tons of cruisers, the size of which the Navy will decide Thirty-four thousand tons of submarines will be con-which promotes fine texture and flavour—helps protect fine ingredients.

Try Royal. See if you don't find it really cheap baking insurance 4191-E structed, compared with the original measure of 45,000 tons.—United Press.

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