MANY QUESTIONNAIRES
WASHINGTON, December 2. The joint committee on the reduction of non-essential Federal expenditures recommended a Congressional investigation into Government red tape and the flood of questionnaires which was increasing costs and hampering war production. According to witnesses, one group of manufacturers spent 495,480 manhours in three months filling out questionnaires. The manager of a drug firm said that questionnaires cost his company 100,000 dollars yearly. A director of a contractors’ association engaged 100 per cent, on war work said that members of firms spent 80 per cent, of their time filling out questionnaires. The committee reported that the growth in the number of questionnaires was menacing the national morale and seriously threatening the war effort.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 60, 4 December 1942, Page 5
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