Washington, Feb. 14.
Congress took extraordinarily swift action today when President Roosevelt asked it to vote immediately credits of $15,000,000 for the purchase of raw materials such as manganese, tin and rubber.
The House of Representatives voted the project, but cut down the sum to $12,500,000. The credits project then went before the Senate Appropriations Committee, which approved the reduction.
President Roosevelt already some time ago insisted on the urgency of these purchases, for he brought up the subject in letters to Vice-President John N. Garnet and House Speaker William B. Bankhead, Jr.—
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