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INQUIRY INTO THE OPERATION OF THE RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES UNDER SENATE RESOLUTION 132
A RESOLUTION FOR AN INQUIRY INTO THE OPERATION
OF THE RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE COR-
PORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
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PART 1
DECEMBER 3, 11, AND 12, 1947
Printed for the use of the Committee on Banking and Currency
COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY
CHARLES W. TOBEY, New Hampshire, Chairman
Eccles, Marriner S., Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve
System...
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Goodloe, John D., Chairman, Board of Directors, Reconstruction
Finance Corporation..
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Herz, Theodore, Assistant Director of the Corporation Audits Division,
General Accounting Office..
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8
McGarrigle, J. Cyril, in charge of financial analysis for the sub-
committee...
Munzall, Daniel, Jr., associate counsel for the subcommittee..
Snyder, John W., Secretary of the Treasury, accompanied by Edward
F. Bartelt, Fiscal Assistant to the Secretary; Thomas J. Lynch,
Acting General Counsel; and George C. Haas, Director of Technical
Staff, Treasury Department----
Stevens, Lewis M., Counsel and executive director for the subcom-
mittee...
Whelan, Joseph A., associate counsel to the subcommittee_
Exhibits:
Exhibit 1. Senate Resolution 132 [to investigate the operations of the
RFC and its subsidiaries], Eightieth Congress, first session_.
Exhibit 2. Public Law 132 [to extend the succession, lending powers,
and the functions of the RFC], Eightieth Congress, first session_..
Exhibit 3. Descriptions of the Legislative Authorizations to RFC...
Exhibit 4-A. Consolidated balance sheet.
Exhibit 4-B. Net income from lending activities, and net income
from war-damage insurance program_-
5, 14
117
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21
147
153
168-169
170
Exhibit 4-C. Unrecovered costs, etc., nonlending activities for na-
Exhibit 6-A. RFC direct business loans-28 borrowers
account for
82 percent of the unpaid balance..
180
Exhibit 6-B. RFC investment in railroads-active loans.
181
Exhibit 6-C. RFC purchase of securities from PWA-15 projects
account for 91 percent of the total unpaid balance_-_.
Exhibit 6-D. RFC loans to self-liquidating projects-10 projects
account for 97 percent of the total unpaid balance..
Exhibit 6-E. RFC loans to drainage etc. districts- -15 borrowers
account for 49 percent of the unpaid balance___
Exhibit 6-F. RFC loans and investments in national banks-56 per-
cent of the remaining investment is concentrated in 11 banks...
Exhibit 6-G. RFC loans and investments in State banks-60 percent
of the remaining investment is concentrated in 21 banks....
Exhibit 6-H. RFC participation in bank loans-principal RFC par-
ticipations__
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183
Exhibit 7-A. RFC loans to business enterprises-graph of authoriza-
tions, disbursements, repayments and other deductions___
Exhibit 7-B. Table in explanation of exhibit 7-A.........
Exhibit 7-C. RFC loans to business enterprises other than national
defense graph of authorizations, disbursements, repayments and
other deductions__
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185
186
Exhibits-Continued
Exhibit 7-D. Table in explanation of exhibit 7-C.
Exhibit 7-E. RFC loans to business enterprises for national defense-
authorizations, disbursements, repayments and other deductions___
Exhibit 7-F. Table in explanation of exhibit 7-E..
Exhibit 8-A. Detailed schedule of loans outstanding to other than
Government agencies, June 30, 1947, with other financial informa-
tion in reference to loan activities.
Exhibit 8-B. Loans and investments authorized during the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1947, and during the 4 months ended October 31,
1947___
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188
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192
Exhibit 8-C. Net income from lending activities, July 1, 1947, to
August 31, 1947
Exhibit 9. RFC loan agencies, managers, assistant managers, and
members of the advisory committees
193
Exhibit 10. Officers and directors, Preferred Accident Insurance Co.
of New York, prior and subsequent to reorganization__
Exhibit 11. Number and amount of loans authorized by RFC for
the fiscal year 1947 and for the months July to October 1947.
Exhibit 12. Regular participations authorized.
Exhibit 13. Blanket participations authorized
Exhibit 14. Small loan participations authorized.
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212
213
Exhibit 15. Business loans authorized, cumulative through October
31, 1947.
Exhibit 16-A. Memorandum dated December 10, 1947, relating to
RFC market guarantee agreements concerning prefabricated
houses
Exhibit 16-B. Memorandum dated December 19, 1947, as an adden-
dum to exhibit 16-A.
216
Exhibit 16-C. Terminated marketing agreements concerning pre-
fabricated houses_
Exhibit 17. Veterans' Emergency Housing Act of 1947, Public Law
388, Seventy-ninth Congress, sections 11 and 12.
217
Exhibit 18. RFC letter of November 22, 1947, to Senator Buck re
internal reorganization of RFC...
218
Exhibit 19. RFC-lending and investment functions, November 30, 1947.
220
Exhibit 20. Preferred stock, capital notes, and debentures of banks
held by RFC..
221
Exhibit 21. RFC letter of March 11, 1947, to the Comptroller of the
Currency concerning retirements of investments in preferred stock
of banks.
Exhibit 22. Letter of National Housing Administrator dated January
10, 1947, to RFC concerning dissolution of Federal National Mort-
gage Association..........
Exhibit 23. Tabulation of number and amount of mortgage loans
insured by the FHA, etc., together with a tabulation of the number
and amount of such loans purchased by the RFC Mortgage Com-
pany and Federal National Mortgage Association.
Exhibit 24. Proposed amendment of RFC to the RFC Act__
Exhibit 25. Letter of RFC dated April 15, 1947, to Senator Tobey
concerning bill, S. 408...
Exhibit 26-A. Statement concerning status of liquidation of wartime
assets and operations and question of legislative cancellation of
wartime obligations___
Exhibit 26-B. Letter of RFC dated June 12, 1947, to Secretary of the
Navy concerning Pacific Ocean program of U. S. Commercial Com-
pany
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223
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225
227
231
Exhibit 26-C. Letter of President of the United States to RFC, dated
August 20, 1947, concerning transfer of U. S. Commercial Company
to Navy Department.
232
Exhibit 26-D. Letter of RFC to U. S. Commercial Company dated
October 24, 1947, concerning transfer of U. S. Commercial Com-
pany to the Navy Department_
233
Exhibit 26-E. Letter of Acting Secretary of the Navy to RFC dated
October 30, 1947, concerning U. S. Commercial Company ---
235
Exhibits Continued
Exhibit 27. Letter of John R. Steelman to RFC dated June 30, 1947,
concerning proposed RFC loan to the Lustron Corp.
Exhibit 28. Statement of Mr. Theodore Herz, Assistant Director of
the Corporation Audits Division, General Accounting Office, before
the Subcommittee on Procurement and Buildings of the Committee
on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, House of Repre-
sentatives.
Exhibit 29. Memorandum of the Controller of the RFC to Chairman
of the Board, RFC, dated December 18, 1947, concerning state-
ment of Mr. Theodore Herz.
Exhibit 30. Letter of RFC to Mr. Lewis M. Stevens, chief counsel,
RFC inquiry, dated November 13, 1947, concerning Texas City
tin smelter....
Exhibit 31. Letter of RFC to Mr. Lewis M. Stevens, chief counsel,
RFC inquiry, dated November 22, 1947, concerning synthetic-
rubber program.
Exhibit 32. Letter of RFC to Mr. Lewis M. Stevens, chief counsel,
RFC inquiry, dated November 17, 1947, concerning surplus
property..
Exhibit 33. Letter of RFC to Hon. George H. Bender, chairman,
concerning testimony of Mr. T. Coleman Andrews before the
House subcommittee..
Exhibit 34. Bank questionnaire-Answers of commercial banks..
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