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Heinl Radio News Service
5/22/46
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Who G-ets The Gravy On $15Q Surplus Radio Sets For $45?
(Phelps Adams in "New York Sun ”7
Five separate congressional investigating committees were rooting into what many of their members believe will prove the most malodorous and shocking scandal in modern American history: A scandal involving the ultimate disposition of $100,000,000,000 worth of the Government’s surplus property by the War Assets Administra¬ tion.* * *
There is the matter of 10,000 handy two-way radio sets. These short-wave transmitting and receiving sets were built for lend-lease account to be used on British and Russian tanks. They cost the Federal Government $1,140 apiece. An official in charge of sales for the eastern division of WAA had arranged for their sale to a New York department store at $150 each. The department store had received a sample and was clearing floor space in its store for them, when another WAA official not in the sales depart¬ ment turned the sets over to a manufacturer-agent who in turn sold them to a competing New York deoartment store where they were sold to the public at $78,50 each.
The Federal Government, instead of receiving $150 apiece for these 10,000 units, actually got $45 apiece for them. The tax¬ payers lost a total of $1,050,000 on the deal. * * *
A manufacturer-agent of the WAA sold $120 worth of quartz crystals, received the correct commission of $12 on the sale, plus expenses which now amount to $15,761. Further sales of this product have been barred by regulations designed to create stock piles of strategic materials. The agent has therefore asked to be relieved of his contract, but until the Treasury can make arrangements to take over this supply and keep it, the Government must pay the agent’s warehousing charges and expenses.* * *
In all, the WAA has disposed of $176,000,000 worth of electronics and communications equipment, from which the cash re¬ ceipts have been $15,000,000, of which $5,000,000 went to manu¬ facturers’ agents for commissions and expenses, leaving a net to the Treasury of only $10,000,000 or less than 6 percent of its original outlay.
The Announcer And The La dy
("Washington Post*')
Lady Baden-Powell, founder of the Girl Guides of England, went to Charleston, W. Va. , a few days ago for a Girl Scout cele¬ bration. She was taken to the studios of Station WCHS, where the announcer tried to ease what he thought might be her pre-broadcast nervousness by asking the perfunctory question, "And how do you like West Virginia, Lady Baden-Powell?". . . Her ladyship drew herself up hautily and replied, "Young man, I didn’t come here to discuss my personal likes and dislikes with you. I merely came to broadcast for the Girl Scouts, and I should like to get on with the broadcast
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