Re: STS51L Accident Questions

From: Murray Anderson (murraya_at_k1ngst0n.net)
Date: 03/12/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:27:10 -0500

"Pat Flannery" <flanner@daktel.com> wrote in message
news:1134mlrtnc4o2a3@corp.supernews.com...
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> Neil Gerace wrote:
>
> >> In this way they could be sure of
> >>having made the right decision 99.9% of the time, while saving the
British
> >>government a great deal of money and time that might otherwise have been
> >>spent on fruitless endeavors. He described his department as a model of
> >>efficiency that the rest of the British government might well aspire to.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >"Yes, Minister."
> >
>
> Yes, this does sound like something Sir Humphrey Appleby would instruct
> the minister in.
> Actually, it does make a lot of sense in its own way.
> WvB got pretty Humphreyesque in some of his dealings with German
> bureaucracy during the war; getting exotic things at Peenemunde was
> easy, but everyday items generated questions as to the necessity of
> their acquisition during audits.
> So entries were made on ledgers about the acquisition of "precision
> small diameter wooden dowel milling machines"...pencil sharpeners, and
> "data recorders incorporating rotating cylinder feed
> mechanisms"....typewriters.
>
> Pat
According to Walter Dornberger this happened in the early thirties when the
funds were limited, they weren't permitted to buy machine tolls or office
equipment, and the Budget Bureau kept a close eye on them.

Murray Anderson