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Among other items, Michigan's Engel said he had found that the Army wasted $250 million of $800 million spent on cantonments for 1,200,000 men; that examples of "outrageous waste" were Camp Blanding, Fla. (near Jacksonville), where a bad choice of sites cost an unnecessary $5 million; Camp Meade, where the Army spent $17,364 to build the same kind of barracks which cost $9,822 at Camp...
Worse than the Waste. Al Engel told more...
Congressman Engel, no partisan either of labor or management, was also "amazed to learn" that the highest paid machine-gun assembler at the Colt Arms Co. was paid $8,741 in 1942, "or $241 more than the base pay of a lieutenant general in the Army...
...almost worse than the actual waste of taxpayers' money, he thought, was the Army's lordly and casual way of doing business without Congressional sanction. On the basis of Army estimates of costs, Congress had willingly appropriated funds. But Mr. Engel, scratching around, found that the Army had asked for many, many more millions than it needed...
...They told us that a medium tank cost $90,000; an 81-mm. trench mortar $800; a 60-mm. trench mortar cost $500, and we made the appropriation on that basis." Mr. Engel said he learned later that a medium tank "actually cost" $60,000; an 81-mm. mortar less than $600; a 60-mm. mortar less than...