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Show this Ai&shington 4 y'-lif 1 l ,1 , unr. ..3 1 people in them than the total of more than 2,443,000 Federal employees, em-ployees, if the boys in the National Nation-al Press Club building read the census figures right. The newsmen news-men figure that the total of governmental gov-ernmental employees Federal, state and local amounts to more than 7,000,000. Senator Byrd's Joint Committee on Reduction of Non-Essential Federal Expenditures has found out that price control is expensive even before it starts controlling. The committee reports that five of the six emergency control agencies, ag-encies, only recently established, have spent more than $1,000,000 for furniture and supplies. A quarter of the sum the committee discovered, was spent for "the most expensive type" furniture. Sen. Byrd also is looking into a report that -the Post Office Department De-partment is considering a plan to print multi-colored stamps. In view of the expense attached to such printing, Mr. Byrd started inquiries and learned that the project pro-ject was due to complaints of stamp collectors to the effect that American postage stamps were not as popular in artistic circles as the multi-colored foreign stamps. The Army has enough coffee on hand to supply all the Armed Forces For-ces for a full year, acording to data uncovered by the House Sub-Committee Sub-Committee on Executive Expenditures, Expendi-tures, Army's stockpile amounts to 143,971,000 pounds, the subcommittee sub-committee found. All the armed forces, it was said, use only 12,-870,000 12,-870,000 pounds of coffee per month. Twenty - six states have fewer |