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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2679-2953p.; iv, 664p. Two bound in one. Bound in 3/4 blue leather. Blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Marbled page ends. Shelfwear to edges of boards. Two names of Dick Davis and Irene Davis to FEP. Stamp from the Office of Dewey Short M.C., 7th District of Missouri on title page of S. 1843. Clean, unmarked pages. S. 1843 was the bill that converted the National Military Establishment into the Department of Defense in 1949. H. Res 234-Investigation of the B-36 bomber program was one of the first phases to the Revolt of the Admirals; an episode that took place in 1949 in which several United States Navy admirals publicly disagreed with the President and the Secretary of Defense's plans for the reduction of the Navy and their new emphasis on the strategic nuclear bombing role by the US Air Force. This hearing was focused on the allegations of fraud and corruption emanating from the Worth Paper. The document pointed out that prior to his posting as Secretary of Defense Johnson had been on the board of directors of Convair, the manufacturer of the B-36 bomber. It pointed out he had an apparent conflict of interest in representing the government with this manufacturer. It went on to claim that the B-36 was a billion-dollar blunder and alleged fraud on the part of B-36 contractors. At the end of the hearings, the Truman administration would win over the admirals and Naval Department in scuttling the new aircraft carriers for the B-36. The B-36 was the first bomber capable of delivering any of the nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal from inside its four bomb bays without aircraft modifications. Dewey Jackson Short was a Republican U.S. Representative from Missouri's 7th congressional district for 12 terms and a staunch opponent of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.