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...Secretary of the Navy Swanson signed contracts for 17 warships to be built in private yards, payment for which will come out of the $238,000,000 public works fund allocated to the Navy (TIME, Aug. 14). He also named some of the new craft as follows: Vincennes (heavy cruiser), Brooklyn, Savannah, Nashville, Philadelphia (light cruisers), Yorktown, Enterprise (aircraft carriers), Porpoise, Pike, Shark, Tarpon (sub-marines...
...Ambassador Welles twice telephoned U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Secretary Hull wirelessed President Roosevelt who, asleep, was gliding up the Potomac on the yacht Nourmahal, his vacation at end. Upshot: a U. S. cruiser and two destroyers hurried to Havana Harbor, one destroyer to Santiago...
...columns of squadrons, 161 Japanese warships came up from a grey and choppy sea last week and dropped anchor in Tokyo Bay. Anchored in rows, the armada covered 36 square miles. Bugles blew men to quarters. Down one lane of warships and up another went the onetime battle cruiser Hiyei (now a passenger ship), stripped of her armament, but with the Imperial Standard (a gold chrysanthemum on a scarlet field) floating from her truck. Every man on every ship stood rigid at attention, for on the Hiyei's bridge was a tiny sacred figure, the owl-eyed...
...destroyers Claxton and Taylor nosed discreetly into Havana harbor. They had dashed over from Key West. From Balboa the destroyers Sturtevant and Overton steamed full speed for Cuba and the U. S. Navy Department announced that eight more destroyers and two cruisers were ready to follow. Of these the largest was the brand new cruiser Indianapolis mounting 8-in. guns, on which President Roosevelt cruised last month...
...Public Works Fund, five out of regular annual appropriations. Total expenditures for fiscal 1934 were estimated at $86,000,000. Contracts awarded: To Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.-two 20,000-ton aircraft carriers at $19,000,000 each. To Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.-one 10,000-ton cruiser with 8-in. guns at $11,720,000; four 1,850-ton destroyers at $3,896,000 each. To New York Shipbuilding Co. of which Errett Lobban Cord last week bought control (see p. 41)-two 10,000-ton cruisers with 6-in. guns, at $11,677,000 each; four...