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Meat Buying / Military Rip-Off / Hearing #245850

CBS Evening News for Monday, May 10, 1976
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(Studio) Senate subcommittee holds hearings on meat sold to military
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

(DC) Ex-mil. meat inspectors testify they allowed military to buy inferior meat at quality meat prices. They received free gifts and services from meat companies [Meat insp. SP/4 Nadja HOYER-BOOTH - lists gifts she recd.] [Senator Lawton CHILES - asks if she knew it was wrong to take gifts.] [HOYER-BOOTH - says everyone was doing it. Not afraid of getting caught.] Meat packers to testify later.
REPORTER: Marya McLaughlin

Reporter(s):
Cronkite, Walter;
McLaughlin, Marya
Duration:
00:02:00

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