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...forces, whose gargantuan appropriations, as Illinois' Paul Douglas has said, defy comprehensive study and evaluation by any Congressman. Under Texas' Lyndon Johnson, the committee has already done a vigorous research job on the high cost of military housing, boot training in Hawaii, top-heavy brass in the Pentagon. Current objectives: favoritism in military procurement; racketeering in hiring workers for overseas bases...
...fight between the President and the Pentagon over the next defense budget ended last week. Truman stood firm for his reduced budget, then made a final concession by adding on $4 billion. And so, after long argument, Defense Secretary Robert Lovett settled for about $49 billion, $10 billion less than the armed services considered necessary to support the planned rate of U.S. defense buildup...
...Chinese Reds, while fighting the Nationalists in the civil war, had made treacherous use of truces to gather strength for the next attack. The pessimists point to the Red buildup which is still going on. The optimists in high places at Panmunjom, at Tokyo and in the Pentagon concede this possibility, but still believe that the Reds, in their way-their stubborn, evasive, treacherous, exasperating way-are groping toward a truce...
...next June, the cold-weather team hopes to be able to tell the Pentagon, once & for all, the best way to treat frostbite, and how best to prevent...
...till year's end did the Pentagon finally draw up a priority list of weapons and component parts-the thousand & one supply items which had become another major bottleneck holding up the final assembly of weapons...