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Philadelphia (Byrd) 7, Washington...
...Colossal . . . terrifying . . . incomprehensible . . . ridiculous," said Senator Harry Byrd during last week's Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearings on the ammunition shortage. He was speaking of the Pentagon system. Continuing the investigation touched off last month (TIME, March 16 et seq.) by former Eighth Army Commander James A. Van Fleet, the subcommittee heard about "the system" from top Defense Department officials and ex-officials. Harry Byrd, who did most of the questioning, kept trying to pin responsibility to individuals, but after a long day's questioning, he growled: "We have not got a single name yet of anybody...
...Byrd: What is the reason that that schedule...
...showed bewildering mazes of bureaus and sub-bureaus through which procurement orders had to pass. Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper studied the charts, announced that by his count an ammunition order "would go through 42 different departments and almost 200 operations" before contracts were actually placed. Senator Byrd asked McNeil how far the order would travel in the process. Said McNeil: "The speedometer reading on that is 10,000 miles, I am told...
...your musket! Trail your rest! Open your charge! Withdraw your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Return your scouring stick! Recover your musket!" of graft or waste or human error. But in sum, they add up to inefficiency and delay. After listening to the week's testimony, Senator Byrd summed up the picture as he saw it: "I believe the record shows clearly that there were shortages in Korea. I think it shows that, to meet Korean requirements, we have drained United States stocks dangerously. I think the ammunition investigation will be a big factor in effecting a wholesale...