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Show I WASHINGTON I NBWS r'ir plicate fleet, to double our Navy's strength and range and give us the power and projection projec-tion in two oceans we now have in the Pacific. And this tremendous tremend-ous task has to be done in a ! NE4WS i '" ' V 1 W ' ) f period of five years. In following follow-ing articles I will explain the bot.lenecks encountered, the ex-' ex-' isting problems and answers to many questions I knew my readers read-ers would like to have answered answer-ed regarding the greatest shipbuilding ship-building program the world has ever seen. BULLETINS THAT MAY BE FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER ' "i OBTAINED FROM MY OFFICE IN WASHINGTON The following is a list of bul-1 letins the people in my district can obatin without any charge merely by writing to my office: LEASE-LEND BILL AMENDMENT An amendment has been offered of-fered providing a custodianship for the securities and proper. y of Great Brilain and other countries coun-tries in this hemisphere, as it is felt that if Hi ler got possession of the title to Briish posscsson in his hemisphere he would have! wnn the war in this part of the world without firing a shot. The addition to the bill reads as follows: To protect the economic eco-nomic welfare of the United States and the o.her American republics and to provide for the common defense of the Western Hemisphere, the President is au-thurtbed au-thurtbed to negotiate the trans-fe trans-fe tro the joint custodianship . of the twenty-one American re-! j No. 602 Production of clean . milk. No. 879 Home storage of vegetables. veg-etables. No. 952 Breeds of light hors-se. hors-se. No. 961 Transferring bees to modern hives. No. 17 Cooking beef according to the cut. No. 42 Good food habits for children. No. 144 Cockroaches and their control. publics for the duration of t he wars abroad and such time thereafter there-after as they may deem necessary, neces-sary, the stocks, bonds, shares, land titles, contracts, agreements representing any rights or interests in-terests in our ownership of any national or private enterprise located within what is geographically geo-graphically known as the Western West-ern Hemisphere, which are owned own-ed or controlled by or subject to the disposition of any such foreign for-eign government or any of its nationals. HOUSE APPEOPKIATIONS COMMITTEE A plan has been agreed upon by the Appropriations committee whereby the Treasury and the Bureau of the Budget would give Congress mon.hly statements on national defense expenditures. Defense expenditures in the first six months were $1,732,200,000 compared with $689,000,000 in th last six months' of the previous fiscal year. DEFENSE ORDERS TO BE PLACED WITH SMALL BUSINESS FIRMS Plans are under way for speeding speed-ing the placing of defense or ders with small business firms The aim is to cut thrrmh lays now experienced in spread in orders to these concern; through large corporations. The National Defense Advisory com-mission com-mission suggested that the large corporations and labor cooperaL ?mPun t0 EPr6ad orders among small business men PLANES SHIPPED TO BRITAIN Great Britain received 221 Panes and Canada received- 87 VeJT United Statel n December. . These two coun-toes coun-toes took 83.of as $32,19 Sported a6reonautic Products exported m the month. The. and eo t0taI f ai- largest" OT6"' the S largest on record, being v P-ceding month, and tne pr T7e5 fr 1940 "P" ra a 165 increase . S f increase z meat supplies TO BE SMALLER . beef andT 1940' Howev" greatest -rThiprf than during tPhS na.aster rate Lt year hl ld War 500,000 ZZ f about 'XXWOO ar over -eifiprs-nd f P PlanlUrt ttTMCan Ve commission On fn Iari-th, Iari-th, we have artert P f a11 gency ship buiIed an emer- ized tvpg of " Md special. els, des!ne m hr and violent mSet the I Pffig sure to e4r L d shiP" is over. St when tiiis war Besides all this it ; I remember that V g00d to tvo vea couny is Program of " aln" on a vast I ' though bv Z rXPaDSim Put I air.t of"tirnr onSress. A vast f eni United If" Mt the Pres. ( -e have Z And l-ed project UnMed 3 ' taat Vaw i4,' mderni2e If fe.g into and to also i " a cmplete duJ .'L |