[Milsurplus] Re: surplus ships fleet

[w8au at sssnet.com]

At 11:34 AM 2/27/06, telegrapher at att.net wrote:
>in the Pacific, my dad who was in the AAF out there told me of times they 
>would take barge loads of radio gear out into the ocean areas and dump 
>everything overboard.  New, repaired etc.  Didn't make any difference as 
>the Gummit had agreed that they would not return this to the US 
>economy.  WOuld cause a big overload and reduce production causing 
>companies who had gummit contracts for war material to have severe cash 
>flow problems trying to compete with war surplus material recovery.

No one has mentioned the "tube" situation.... They apparently did not 
adhere to this philosophy with transmitting/receiving tubes....
EIMAC almost went out of business when 304TL's and other tubes went on 
surplus market for 75 cents apiece, etc.   Was this policy selective?

Perry w8au