What was the purpose of the shipbuilding program mandated by Second Vinson Act ?
A member of the United States House of Representatives for fifty years , Carl Vinson was , for twenty - nine 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 World War II .