| Show buy luxurious furnishings for quoddy employed Emp loyes the nations taxpayers footing the bill for billions of dollars of new deal expenditures were given an unwitting glimpse behind the off official iclal scenes when the war department recently advertised for furnishings for workers quarters on the power project at maine to those who are wondering how the richest and most powerful nation in the world can plunge into the abyss of huge governmental deficits the specifications for quoddy project furnishings are revealing As a part of the more abundant life for the workers in question the war department found the following absolutely necessary all wool blankets of pastel green with wide taffeta rayon bindings inches and weighing 21 L pa pounds ands no more and no less the furniture to be used must be in colonial style dull finish and constructed ted of old fashioned maple while the fire places must harmonize with the lionial furnishings T the he war department also felt the iced e d for puffs which it was explained pla ined are otherwise known as comforts I 1 these comforts must be stuffed with the down of ducks and covered with sun fast rust sateen reception rooms room will be furnished with two great grandfather clocks each these timepieces time pieces are to be either walnut mahogany galY or maple however lIo wever it is specified that they must be 7 feet tall 24 21 inches wide and IS inches deep dials of silver are essential pewter candlesticks are also required together with coffee tables card tables and davenports davenporte daven ports on the walls will be hung paintings by recognized masters the war department also boug sought lit bids tor for love seats the philadelphia inquirer which commented editorially on the manifestations of the new deal remarked on some peculiar omissions where are the gold plated bathtubs this newspaper wanted to know and the electric elevators every well appointed club has a billiard room not to mention a bar it the government Is going in for boon boggling dog gling deluxe deluse the inquirer concluded d let it do it right |
