Relief of Contractors for Work on the Ohio River: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 10069, a Bill Making Appropriations for the Construction, Repair, and Preservation of Certain Public Works on Rivers and Harbors, and for Other Purposes, Saturday, April 20, 1918

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918 - Construction contracts - 31 pages

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Page 19 - That such modifications and readjustments shall apply only to work under said contracts remaining to be done hereafter and shall not include any relief for work performed heretofore under said contracts, and any such sum as may be necessary to provide for the increased cost of the contracts due to said modifications and readjustments, not exceeding the sum of...
Page 19 - Germany, have become inequitable and unjust on account of increased costs of materials and labor and other unforeseen conditions arising out of the war, he is hereby authorized, in his discretion and...
Page 19 - That if the Secretary of War shall determine that any of the contracts for work of river and harbor improvements entered into but not completed prior to April sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, the date of the entrance of the United States into the war with Germany, have become inequitable and unjust on account of increased costs of materials and labor and other unforeseen conditions arising out of the war, he is hereby authorized, in his discretion...
Page 3 - HR 10419," and was described as "A BILL making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.
Page 2 - NELSON, Minnesota. JOSEPH E. RANSDELL, Louisiana. WILLIAM ALDEN SMITH, Michigan. MORRIS SHEPPARD, TEXAS. WESLEY L. JONES, Washington. JAMES K. VARDAMAN, Mississippi. LAWRENCE Y. SHERMAN, Illinois. JOHN K.
Page 6 - ... can give you an instance of that in the case of a bridge — not on this work, but on the Barge Canal.

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