An item reported that a day earlier the American secretary of the navy Swanson (1) stated that the US navy desperately needed new aircraft and that the battleships aged in such tempo that immediately was to start with a huge building program. As a result would the department of navy on 15th august started with the registration of tenders for building 24( ?) battleships and furthermore 100 floatplanes to be financed with the recently by the Congress approved budgets.
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1. Claude Augustus Swanson (31 March 1862 Swansonville, Virginia, USA-7 July 1939 Rapidan Camp, Virginia, USA), lawyer and Democratic politician, secretary of the navy 5 March 1933-7 July 1939.
