Washington, Aug. 22.
Plant expansion loans totalling US$78000,000 have been granted to Boeing aircraft, Bendix Aviation and Curtiss Wright manufacturing companies in a move to break the bottleneck in impending military airplane production, Mr. Jesse Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, announced here yesterday.
The loans supplement US$92,000,000 already allotted to the Wright Aeronautical Corporation to build a huge production plant.
The loans were revealed coincident with an announcement by the State Department that during' July, US$9,497,123 worth of the military planes were shipped to Britain and US$1,227,487 worth to Canada. Canada also "bought US$2,583,10§ worth of aircraft engines during the same month.—United Press.
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