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...Mead Committee has not brought out that Statesman Andy May had anything to do with the Garssons' sudden blossoming as munitions magnates in early 1942. (The Walker loan incident indicates, however, that the May-Garsson tieup existed in early 1941.) It was an extraordinary beginning...
...firm which employed him, represented on it to the War Department that he had a company and plant equipped to turn out 4.2-in. mortar shells. This company, the Erie Basin Metal Products Inc., did not then actually exist. But soon after Pearl Harbor the War Department gave Dr. Garsson's nonmachined firm a whopping order for shells. Meantime Henry Garsson had found two men-Allen B. Gellman and Joseph Weiss of Chicago-who had factories and machines but no war contracts...
...Shell Game. They and the Garsson brothers formed a partnership. Soon the Government's order was boosted to $2,900,000. The Garssons were in the shell game-with Gellman and Weiss providing the plants and the Government (by advance payments) the capital...
...went the Garsson earnings. The Committee has traced more than $500,000 in fees and salaries to the brothers; Gellman and Weiss did even better...
...went their influence over the Army's Chemical Warfare Service. The Garsson companies got pretty much whatever they wanted-in manpower, in advances of funds, in contracts for 8-in. shells, mortars, other munitions, in about $1,000,000 of disputed overpayments. They had a powerful friend pressuring the generals and colonels. Bald Andy May made no bones about the fact that the Garssons were his warm friends...