Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eighth Army fired an average of 62,616 rounds of mortar and artillery ammunition a day-nearly ten times the enemy's average daily rate of fire. But such Pentagon efforts to persuade the Senators to look at the silver lining collapsed when Virginia's Harry Byrd put a question to Army Secretary Robert Ten Broeck Stevens...
...Byrd: You do not deny there is an ammunition shortage? And can you speak for Mr. Wilson: he does not deny there is an ammunition shortage...
...always had enough ammunition on the firing line. At times, he said, there was not enough to support counterbattery fire or to cope with Chinese "human sea" attacks. All the Pentagon witnesses conceded that in the past reserve stocks in Korea had fallen dangerously low. Under questioning by Harry Byrd, General Collins finally admitted that, so far as ammunition supplies were concerned, the lull following the July 1951 armistice talks in Korea had come as a desperately needed respite...
Virginia's Harry Byrd promptly sent Defense Secretary Charles Wilson a letter beginning: "In my 20 years in the Senate I have never been more shocked ..." Committee Chairman Leverett Saltonstall followed up with a request that Wilson, Army Secretary Robert Stevens and Army Chief of Staff General J. Lawton Collins give their side of the ammunition story to the committee early this week. Wilson assured the Senators in advance that the Far East command had enough ammunition "to counter any enemy attack in Korea...
...effort along these lines, Senate Banking Committee staffers estimated last week, might add about $1 billion to the Treasury in fiscal 1954. Harry Byrd thinks this is conservative, and expects that assets amounting to several billion dollars will be liquidated in the next few years. Among the Government's financial watchdogs, the staff of the General Accounting Office, there is heady talk that liquidations combined with reduced federal expenditures might even produce a balanced cash budget in fiscal...