Tangible benefits from suggestions submitted by the Department of Defense and Coast Guard military personnel and adopted during 1968 totaled over $95,000,000, an increase of nearly 50% over the 1967 figures.
Message to the Congress Transmitting Reports on the Cash Awards Program for Military Personnel.
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