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Before Mr. Graham could say "Canol," the U.S. was committed to a project requiring 200,000 tons of shipping space, hundreds of vital priorities, shiploads of precious refinery equipment, 4,000 troops, 12,000 civilians. Prospectors probed for oil 75 miles south of the Arctic circle; roads sprang up through Canada's frozen wilder ness; shivering crews stretched 4-in. pipe line from Norman Wells on the Mackenzie River across 500 miles of barren north west territory to Whitehorse on the Yukon...
This week the Truman Committee reported to U.S. taxpayers that the man-hours, materials and money already spent on Canol have been an "inexcusable" waste. The committee admitted that the Army might be partially forgiven a mis take during the frenzied months after Pearl Harbor. But what the Committee could not condone, nor ask the U.S. to dismiss lightly, was the stubborn brass-hattery which had refused, time & time again, to correct, or even to admit the original blunder. The Army had been amply warned...
...Petroleum Boss Harold Ickes (who is supposed to coordinate all Government oil activities) heard about Canol through Washington gossip. He found Canol "well-nigh fantastic." He told General Somervell that one U.S. tanker, making four trips, could supply the Alaska Highway with as much aviation gas as the Army's whole costly drilling-piping-refining project. General Somervell was not impressed...
When the General Staff became curious, General Somervell gave Canol a hazy but reassuring recommendation...
...Budget Bureau, brooding aloud over the $134,000,000, received a peremptory Army rebuff: "The Canol project must be completed as rapidly as possible and without further interference or delay...