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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promptly the War Department challenged his figures: GAO, said Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, "had actually disallowed less than 10? per $1,000" on Army contracts (or $100,000 per billion dollars). He said that 90% of Lindsay Warren's 270 items had either been detected and disallowed by the Army itself or subsequently approved by GAO. The false teeth, said Mr. Patterson, were due to a Navy-not Army-order that a contractor's technicians take an extra pair along to Russia (together with extra glasses) because such medical minutiae are unobtainable there. "While...
...respectfully pressed GAO Boss Warren for his views. He admitted the compelling need for speed in terminating war contracts.* He also admitted that GAO could not possibly be fast enough 1) with its present funds and staff or 2) under his original suggestion that a meticulous audit of every item was necessary. The Army admitted that it had made some mistakes, would be bound to make some more, and that some war contractors would inevitably get away with modified murder in the process...
Congratulations on carrying the item about Zeniths new hearing aid, in your issue...
...believe that all your Netherlands readers will be shocked over the fact that you had to use a German word in this particular item...
...your issue of Sept. 13 your news item . . . states that Her Royal Majesty Queen Wilhelmina spent a Hausfrau's day at home with Prince Bernard on her 63rd birthday...