Navy Heads Urge Huge Increase In Fleet Budget -- In a Huddle at the opening of hearings before the house naval affairs committee, Jan. 8th, are (left to right): Lewis Compton, assistant to the secretary of Navy; Admiral Harold Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, and Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison. Stark urged that the committee approve a $1,300,000,000 increase in the naval budget to permit a 25 percent expansion of the fleet because of the present European situation in conjunction with far Eastern condition, present a threat of World conflagration. January 08, 1940. (Photo by ACME)

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Navy Heads Urge Huge Increase In Fleet Budget -- In a Huddle at the opening of hearings before the house naval affairs committee, Jan. 8th, are (left to right): Lewis Compton, assistant to the secretary of Navy; Admiral Harold Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, and Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison. Stark urged that the committee approve a $1,300,000,000 increase in the naval budget to permit a 25 percent expansion of the fleet because of the present European situation in conjunction with far Eastern condition, present a threat of World conflagration. January 08, 1940. (Photo by ACME)

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