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...Perhaps the real trouble is the way we Americans go at a job. We waste materials in a criminal manner and we cut corners in a way which makes a man who is wedded to paperwork tear his hair. But, man, how we get the job done! The day I turned the runway over to , finished and ready to use, he said to me as we were leaving: 'Now I will tell you a secret. If I had asked my Commander to get the Government chaps to build this, I would have waited six months for some bloke...
...takes a hell of a lot of paperwork to run the Army, Navy and Air Force; there's no getting away from that point. At the same time, it seems rather doubtful that there is enough administration and brittle-bone work to warrant the creation of all these female forces and shake-ups in the home lives of countless families. After all, what is home without a woman...
With pardonable pride, Donald M. Nelson's committee-to-cut-down-paperwork (TIME, July 13) this week reported on the biggest operation on red tape in history. Their before & after report on reports made phantasmagoric reading...
Before: One auto company moaned that on one occasion it had to spend $125,000 and 100,000 man-hours to fill out Government forms. Another tiny manufacturer got so far behind on his paperwork that he had to shut down for three weeks to catch up. Some tell-us-everything forms "reached the dimensions of a small window shade" (at the same time that WPB prohibited the sale of wide-carriage typewriters). Worst of all, the committee found that, despite an early Nelson order allegedly limiting data requests, eager WPBureaucrats "with convenient mimeograph machines" were sending out sheaves...
After: The committee took credit for saving industry 30,000,000 man-hours of paperwork a year (enough, had they been productive, to turn out more than 1,000 bombers). One hundred twenty forms were eliminated, 132 more simplified, reducing the number of forms 20% from the heyday of red tape, eliminating more than 50% of the actual paperwork required. One of the defunct forms would have cost one industry alone 400,000 man-hours a year; it would have cost the Government 100,000 more man-hours. As for the "bootleggers," the committee wryly reported that they had been...