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Show WASTE In Government In the U. S. Geological Survey .... On March 10, 1951, a report announced to a breathlessly waiting world that "Hoplopho-reus, "Hoplopho-reus, famed saber tooth carnivore carni-vore of ' the Oligocene Period, some 25 to 35 million years ago, should no longer be referred to as a tiger or even a .cat." The study, made while we were at war in Korea, will correct the impression held by millions of ordinary people that Hoplopho-neus Hoplopho-neus was the ancestor of Smilo-don, Smilo-don, the true saber tooth tiger. In the Federal Security Administration The FSA, according to a Congressional Con-gressional investigation, has on,e personnel worker for every 63 of is employees. Its purchasing purchas-ing department workers were found to handle an average of 2.4 orders a day, and h'alf of the orders were for amounts less than $20. In the Bureau Of Fisheries . . . A few months ago, this Bureau Bu-reau published an elaborately illustrated 167-page book called "Guide to the Classification of Fishing Gear In ttie Philippines," Philip-pines," as part of the Philippine Rehabilitation Program. The author hopes that the book will 'facilitate the identification) and distinction of fishing gear so that a newcomer in the Philippines Philip-pines will be able to recognize a particular apparatus by its local lo-cal rjame without a speaking knowledge of the dialect." |