Millions for defense: [electronic resource]emergency expenditures for national defense, 1933-1940.

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Title	Millions for defense: [electronic resource]emergency expenditures for national defense, 1933-1940.
Alternative Title	Millions for defense; "Emergency expenditures for national defense 1933-1940"
Item Number	f0005
Creator (Corporate)	United States. Federal Works Agency.
Government Publisher	Federal Works Agency; U.S. Government Printing Office
Original Date	1940
Physical Description	46 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Notes	John M. Carmody, Federal Works Administrator.--p. 1.
Table of Contents	Administrator's foreword -- Introduction -- Army aviation -- Military airports -- Navy aviation -- Aircraft carriers -- Aeronautical research -- Civil aviation -- Naval construction -- Destroyers and submarines -- Naval bases -- Shipyards and docks -- Naval facilities -- Army posts -- Hospital construction -- Army machine shop facilities -- Reconditioning of ordnance -- Army motorization -- Public roads -- Bridges and underpasses -- Coast Guard -- National Guard armories -- National Guard camps.
Summary	Over a billion dollars of emergency funds has been spent for direct national defense purposes in the past 7 years. Additional billions of emergency funds have been spent for roads, bridges, railroad electrification, streamlined trains, power plants, warehouses, docks, and other facilities which are indispensable to total defense and will be invaluable in furnishing energy for manufacturing defense materials, providing facilities for the swift transport of men and supplies, and creating needed storage space. More could have been spent to build up the strength of our armed forces, but when the $4,880,000,000 Public Works Bill of 1935 was under consideration, an amendment on the floor of the Senate took away the discretion vested in the President in respect to these funds which had previously permitted him to allocate substantial sums for munitions, warships, and military and naval materiel from emergency funds made available in 1933 and 1934. This ban made it impossible for the President to provide in 1935 alone approximately $600,000,000 for defense purposes which the Army and Navy had requested, thereby retarding defense preparation. Subsequent legislation in substance continued this prohibition except for $15,000,000 of new money in 1938. Since 1935, therefore, the President has been unable to allot emergency funds for such national defense purposes. For many months now our Army and Navy pilots have been flying planes built with PWA funds, landing on airports constructed by WPA labor and on the decks of aircraft carriers financed by emergency relief allocations. No other nation in the Western Hemisphere has a fleet as large as our 'PWA Fleet' of aircraft carriers, cruisers, and destroyers built since 1933 with emergency funds. Other ships are now coming out of navy yards rehabilitated by emergency funds, and outfitted in new navy bases which have been modernized by these funds. Motorized elements of the Army's new 'streamlined divisions' ride in equipment financed by PWA funds, over modern highways and bridges built as emergency relief projects. Ordnance factories have benefited by new construction and new machinery financed by relief allocations. The Coast Guard has been supplied with many new cutters and dozens of new planes, the National Guard strengthened by the construction of new armories, camps, and facilities throughout the Nation. This booklet shows only a few of the hundreds of ways in which our national defense has been strengthened by emergency spending during the past 7 years. During these years the strength of our armed forces has been further augmented by increasingly large appropriations to our War and Navy Departments. None of these Army and Navy projects, however, carried out with their own funds, is shown here. Illustrations are confined wholly to projects and types constructed with funds appropriated to meet emergency and relief needs.--p. 2-3.
Corporate Names	United States.--Public Works Administration. United States.--Work Projects Administration. United States.--Army. United States.--Army Air Forces. United States.--Navy. United States.--Militia Bureau. United States.--Coast Guard.
Topical Terms	World War, 1939-1945--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Logistics. Public works--United States Military readiness. Industrial mobilization--United States. Armed Forces--Mobilization. Defense industries--United States. Civil defense--United States.
Geographic Terms	United States--Defenses.
Gov Doc Classification	FW 1.2:D 36
Type	Text
Digital Format	.pdf
Digital Publication Date	Available in digital format: 2001-2002
Digitization Process	Scanned as 300 dpi .jpg; converted to Adobe .pdf
SMU File Name	f0005.pdf
Digital Collection	Historic Government Publications from World War II
Library	Government Information Resources
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights	These files may be freely used. A high-quality version of these files may be obtained for a fee by contacting ncds@smu.edu.

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