As shipbuilder for the United Nations the U.S. Maritime Commission spent $15 billion in four years. From the shipyards came bottoms aplenty and in time In their wake last week came a flood of chargesreports about how the job was done.
To the House Merchant Marine Congressional Committee now probing the Maritime Commission, Lindsay Warren's General Accounting Office made a report: Maritime Commission books had been kept so badly that GAO could not find out how the money had been spent. Apparently, there were no records on $910,494,372 worth of ships which the Commission built. GAO had uncovered no record of...
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