THE ADMINISTRATION: That Stupid Office Boy

The businessmen who took paid leave from their jobs to work for the Government in World Wars I and II were called dollar-a-year men. This time they are called WOCs—for "without compensation." When Emanuel Celler's House subcommittee announced recently that it was going to check up on Washington's WOCs, it got a mysterious tip. The Congressmen, said the tipster, should look into some of the steel allocations made by the National Production Authority.

The subcommittee called on Colonel William George Knight, a retired engineer who heads the power section of NPA's transportation...

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