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who wanted results in the War Effort we had excellent results. We made no
statements unless we had the facts. We wanted no one smeared or whitewashed
and after two years of very hard work the Committee had a national reputation
for energy and integrity.
We saw the seamy side of the war effort. We had to
investigate crooked contractors on Camp Construction, Airplane Pngine
manufacturers who made faulty ones, Steel Plate Factories which cheated
and hundreds of other such sordid and unpatriotic ventures. We investigated
procurement labor hoarding, Army and Navy waste in food and other supplies.
But when we were coming to our conclusions, we all decided that by
and large the greatest production and war preparation job in hostory had been
done.
RECOROS
s
We looked into Rubber and made a report on it in May 1941
which resulted in the Baruch plan. We found cartel agreements by the great
oil and aluminum companies, which were helpful to the enemy and we found
labor leaders who were willing to sacrifice the country for their own
a
aggindizement. Publicity is the best antidote for this sort of thing and the
Committee acted as a sounding board to the country. We made some thirty
reports over a three year period and due to the painstaking care with which
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