ST. LOUIS EXHIBIT 2 GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, Mr. RAY WARD, PUBLIC BUILDINGS SERVICE, Washington, D. C., August 4, 1952. Staff Member, Inter-Governmental Relations Subcommittee, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. DEAR MR. WARD: Herewith, pursuant to your recent telephone request, is— (a) Lists, in duplicate, of rented office space or depot space in St. Louis, Mo., containing respective areas, and summation of total annual rental; (b) An estimate of cost per square foot to convert Medical Depot in St. Louis to office space: The best that we can do here is to state results on two large buildings that we have just recently converted, (1) the Rand-McNally Building in Chicago, from factory and warehouse space to office space, for a total of $2,044,000. The building contains 510,000 net square feet, giving a total cost per square foot of $4.01; (2) also we are just finishing conversion of the Loeser Building, Brooklyn, N. Y., from warehouse space to office space. The total area is 262,357 net square feet; total cost of alterations, $1,359,000; cost per net square foot, $5.18. The foregoing estimates include all necessary toilets, heating, elevators, and ventilation, but no air conditioning. (c) An estimate of the construction cost of single-story permanent-type warehouses: We have recently designed an estimate from design, drawing the following costs for this type of structure. The Federal Supply Service warehouse in Kansas City, floor at truck level, including heat, light, and other mechanical devices, $7.50 per square foot; Emergency Procurement Service type warehouse, floor at ground level, $4 to $4.50 per square foot.. Sincerely yours, JOHN L. NAGLE, Director, Real Property Acquisition and Utilization Division. Leased space data in urban center St. Louis, Mo., as of July 31, 1952 FIELD CONFERENCES ON FEDERAL SUPPLY MANAGEMENT-PART II (Meeting held with representatives of the Marking Device Association in connection with military operations in the marking device field) WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1952 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES The subcommittee convened at 4 p. m., Park Plaza Hotel, St. Louis, Mo., Hon. Herbert C. Bonner, chairman, presiding. Present: Representatives Herbert C. Bonner, (Mrs.) Cecil M. Harden, Charles B. Brownson, Thomas B. Curtis, and Melvin Price from the Committee on Armed Services. Staff members present: Thomas A. Kennedy, general counsel; Ray Ward, staff director; and Herbert Roback, staff director, Reorganization Subcommittee. Also present: Elmer F. Way, secretary-general manager, Marking Device Association, 134 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Ill., and John E. Schweizer, 231 Russell Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. Mr. BONNER. The subcommittee will come to order. Gentlemen, we are here to hear you in connection with the operations of the military in the marking device field. I believe Mr. Way will speak for the association. STATEMENT OF ELMER F. WAY, SECRETARY-GENERAL MANAGER, MARKING DEVICE ASSOCIATION, CHICAGO, ILL. Mr. WAY. I will take about 15 minutes to brief you on the industry and Mr. Schweizer will give you specific examples where the Government has entered this field. Mr. BONNER. You represent the Marking Device Association? Mr. WAY. Yes, sir; I am the general manager and secretary of the Marking Device Association. Mr. BONNER. Where are your headquarters? Mr. WAY. In Chicago, Ill., 134 LaSalle Street. ་ We are a proud industry and I am happy to have the opportunity to go over our situation with you today. We are actually not 1 in 1 Name changed to Committee on Government Operations, July 4, 1952. dustry, we are 14. Just to give you an example, a stamp manufacturer making rubber stamps, for instance, has almost nothing in common with the people making steel stamps, except that the unanimity of our products. We hold our units together, because we want to provide a thorough marking service. If you walked into our place and you wanted to mark an ash tray, and if we provided the service which we claim we do, we would be able to tell you the best method to mark that item. Therefore, we are marking experts. I want to read a little from one of these brochures and I want you to have one of these for your record. It is difficult to define that group of implements which are known as marking devices in such a way as to differentiate them from the writing pen, the pencil, and the signmaker's paint brush. The latter class, however, consists of implements with which an infinite variety of marks may be made without change in the implement, while a marking device, when once prepared for use, will produce only duplicates of a single mark, although many types may be adjusted at will to vary the mark within limits. The same difficulty arises in defining them away from tools or machines such as the printing press or the duplicating machine, which also produce marks or impressions. One difference is that such machines ordinarily imprint original markings in large numbers of identical copies in one run, while marking devices are largely used to imprint secondary markings superposed on smaller quantities of articles otherwise previously completed, and are not used continuously for an extended period. Although our industry has a number of standardized commodity products, we are largely a made-to-order business, and such prices as we can establish are average prices, because, as you can appreciate, every individual stamp-every rubber stamp-is an individual madeto-order item. We are, therefore, an industry of artists and an industry of specialized skills. Marking is as old as recorded history. We have evidence of a cave inan in France producing stencils with his hand by blowing powdered ocher through a straw around his outstretched fingers. We find such evidence all through recorded history. For example, King Tut had hub caps on the wheels of his chariot which bore the royal crest and that was put there by a marking implement. We would call it a steel die today. The English silversmiths worked on what they called a basis of fineness, which developed eventually into sterling, with which they marked all of their products, and it was a very serious thing to violate that mark. However, as a marking industry, we probably date from the introduction of rubber stamps, which was shortly after the Civil War when vulcanized rubber came into general being and we produced then a rubber stamp. At that time it was produced by itinerant peddlers, and they began taking on other lines and they put down roots and pretty soon we had a marking-device establishment. As I said before, the thing that holds us together and stamps us as an industry is this unanimity of end products. We are now an industry of marking experts. We are not rubber-stamp houses any more and this change is significant. That is why I am bearing down on it. We are not a large industry, and this isn't good politics, but I differ with the Department of Commerce. I have one of their surveys and in 1947 they list us as having 426 establishments and 4,684 employees, and a total value of product shipped of $28.058,000. Those figures show we are not jobbers or merchandisers. Largely, we are an in |