GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-FIFTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

JULY 28, 29, AND 30, 1958

Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Operations

Anderson, H. D., president, Associated Equipment Distributors, and

president, Rish Equipment Co., Bluefield, W. Va__

Green, Seymour, Green Truck Sales., Los Angeles, Calif.

Holden, James F., assistant secretary, Willys Motors, Inc..

King, Joseph T., Washington representative, Associated Equipment

Distributors

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Masterson, Frank, president, Industrial Fasteners Institute, Cleve-
land, Ohio..

Parker, F. W., Jr., vice president, transmission and axle division,

Rockwell-Standard Corp., Detroit, Mich., accompanied by Ralph

H. Trese, vice president; John Gallagher, attorney; William A.

Strauch and Henry Shur, Strauch, Nolan & Neale, Washington,

D. C.; and Joseph T. McDonnell, counsel.

Quimby, George F., secretary-treasurer, Soft Fibre Manufacturers'

Institute, Wilton, Conn., accompanied by Earl F. Noel, vice presi-

dent, Hanover Cordage Co., Hanover, Pa.-

Walter, Raymond J., secretary-treasurer, Sun Glass Institute: accom-

panied by J. C. Crowther, chairman, imports committee, Sun Glass

Institute, and president, Bachman Bros., Inc.; and Thomas Johnson,

president, Sun Glass Institute..

Way, Howard E., foreign excess property officer, Business and De-

fense Services Administration, Department of Commerce, accompa-

nied by Richard W. Burbank, deputy foreign excess property officer.

Weyburne, Fred, general manager, Bendix Aviation Corp--

Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by-

Dawson, Hon. William L., a Representative from the State of Illinois,

and chairman, Committee on Government Operations:

Copies of invitation to bids and consummated contract with ad-

ditional provisions.......

Excerpt from Steel magazine, July 28, 1958, entitled "Fastener
Sales Fall 30 percent".

Excerpt from letter from Col. Willard F. Rockwell, chairman of
the board, Rockwell-Standard Corp., to Hon. William L. Daw-
son, April 28, 1958.

Excerpt of remarks by Mathew Hale, then Acting Solicitor of the

Department of Commerce, March 24, 1949, before the House

Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Department on

pending H. R. 2781__

Exhibit I.-Letter from H. D. Anderson, president, Associated
Equipment Distributors, Bluefield, W. Va., to Hon. Sinclair
Weeks, Secretary of Commerce, March 17, 1958-

Exhibit II.-Letter from Frederic W. Olmstead, Chairman, Ap-

peals Board, Department of Commerce, to Joseph T. King,

Associated Equipment Distributors, July 11, 1958-

Exhibit III.-Letter from Joseph T. King, Associated Equip-
ment Distributors, to Frederic W. Olmstead, Chairman,
Appeals Board, Department of Commerce, July 23, 1958..
Exhibit IV. Announcement of sale of construction equipment
by an importer..

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Exhibit VI.-Announcement of auction sale by region 4 of the

General Services Administration___.

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