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Show Roosevelt Asks Big Sum for Navy WASHINGTON, March 27 QJ.P) President Roosevelt today submitted sub-mitted to congress a supplemental requested for $19,574,500 to be spent iby the navy in the 1940 fiscal year, largely for additional addition-al aircraft and ordnance. The regular navy budget for 1940 was $687,498,800. In addition, the president asked that the navy department be given authority to use $16,189,600 of regular appropriations for replacement re-placement of naval vessels and to procure "essential equipment, for navy, yards so that the fleet expansion ex-pansion program will not be de- |