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[2] [3] In early June 1940, the U.S. Congress passed legislation that provided an 11% increase in naval tonnage as well as an expansion of naval air capacity. [4] On June 17, a few days after German troops conquered France , Chief of Naval Operations Harold Stark requested four billion dollars from Congress to increase the size of the American ...
Seeks to abolish the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and transfer its powers and functions, funds and appropriations, records, equipment, property and personnel to the Department with the following agencies being attached thereto: 1. Cultural Center of the Philippines; 2. National Museum of the Philippines; 3.
A member of the United States House of Representatives for 50 years, Carl Vinson was, for 29 years, the Chairman of the House Naval Affairs and Armed Services Committee; Vinson was the principal sponsor of the so-called "Vinson Acts", culminating in the Two-Ocean Navy Act of 1940, which provided for the massive naval shipbuilding effort in ...
With the defense of both the U.S. and its overseas possessions, along with a very strong national interest in assisting Britain in its struggle to keep its supply lines open to both North America and its overseas colonies, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced what was to become known as the Emergency Shipbuilding Program on January 3, 1941, for the construction of 200 ships very much ...
[2] Driving license: Land Transportation Office: Land vehicle drivers [3] Marriage certificate: Philippine Statistics Authority: Married Filipino citizens [1] National identity card Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) ID: Philippine Statistics Authority: Filipino citizens and non-Filipino citizens with permanent residency [4] NBI clearance
The Philippines will not allow China to remove a Philippine military outpost in a fiercely disputed South China Sea shoal, a navy official said Wednesday, a day after four Filipino navy personnel ...
The Naval Act of 1938, known as the Second Vinson Act, was United States legislation enacted on May 17, 1938, that "mandated a 20% increase in strength of the United States Navy", [1] allocating $1.09 billion (equivalent to $18.5 billion in 2023 relative to GDP inflation [2]) for it. [3]
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