Word: engels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This would be no news to Congressman Albert J. Engel of Michigan. Earnest, wire-haired Mr. Engel, who has done plenty of scratching around in the underbrush of Washington, had long ago discovered that the War Department (in the matter of public funds) was a "rat hole...
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...