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training purposes and in time of national emergency. The Authority's plan includes provision for the continued training along advanced lines of the best qualified student pilots throughout their college careers and on an alumni refresher-training basis thereafter in order that they may be assured of a means to keep up their flying and maintain their value as a national defensive reserve. The Civil Aeronautics Authority developed its program after consultation with many leaders of the aviation industry. It is convinced that in addition to building up a valuable aeronautical reserve of young men soundly versed in the fundamentals of flying, the plan will stimulate a healthy development of the aircraft manufacturing industry and that the two things together will create a back-log of inestimable value to the nation's air defenses. Only by such an approach, it believes, can the United States adequately safeguard itself against the vast serial militarization programs now being pressed with fanatic zeal by foreign powers unless it is to emulate their warlike preparations. It is more in keeping with the American spirit of preparedness to build up a great pool of men and machines, dedicated to and engaged in the pursuits of peace, but yielding first place to no other nation in flying skill or technical development, and quickly adaptable to military needs in the event of war. Essentially, the Authority's plan simply proposes to give aviation its proper place in the vocational training system already established and functioning in the public and private schools of the country. Approximately $22,000,000 of federal funds are now expended annually on such vocational training. The increasing importance of aviation, both as an economic factor