TREMENDOUS expansion of United States military power to cope with possible aggression from abroad entered the first stage of reality yesterday when the House Appropriations Committee recommended approval of the staggering total of US$9,826,509,492 for U.S. Army activities during the fiscal year of 1942.
The total, the largest peace-time sum ever asked for in history, included appropriations for 12.856 additional planes which will give the United States a plane production capacity of 40,000 craft annually by
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