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    "ocrText": "7-22-\nyou niles\n131 C St., S.W.,\n7-19-50\nEphrata, Wash.\nJuly 19,1950.\nHis Excellency Harry y S. Truman, President,\nThe White House,\n1600 Pennsylvania ave.,\nWashington, D.C.\nSir:\nWashington Paperland\nRAIL freight shipments in and out of Washington were checked recently.\nThe biggest export item was baled wastepaper. The largest inbound item was\nstationery.\n- Cedric Adams in Minneapolis Star\nTHE House Appropriations Committee has discovered that the Internal\nRevenue Bureau in 1946 printed 500 million tax forms and 115 million in-\nstruction sheets to supply 47 million taxpayers. The bureau had so many\nleft it had to lease a building in which to store them - forms for which\nthere was and could be no use.\n- Editorial in Oakland Tribune\nWHEN Jess Larson, Administrator of General Services, appeared before\nthe House Appropriations Committee, he was questioned about alleged ex-\ncessive inventories in some of the departmental warehouses. In reporting on\n\"Agency A,\" he gave this bill of particulars: \"We found that they had a\nsupply of fluorescent light tubes that would last 93 years. We found that\nthey had packages of ruled filler paper that would last them 168 years, at\nthe current rate of use. We found that they had a supply of tracing cloth\nthat would last them nine years, and loose-leaf binders enough to last them\nfor 247 years.\"\n- From transcript of Hearings on Independent Offices Bill, 1951\nWould you mind repeating your\ncomments of this evening relative to\nexcessive spending and hoarding? I was\nso interested in reading the above\nclipping that I did Respectfully, not quite get them.\nCharles N.Young"
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