Contract Termination: (executive Session) Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 3 of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R.4789 and S.1718, to Provide for the Settlement of Claims Arising from Terminated War Contracts, and for Other Purposes, (includes Hearings Before the House Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning, and Excerpts from Other Congressional Hearings), May 17, 1944 |
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... going into the mechanism or machinery . We have provided a different process of review or periods when settlements are made . You can work that out satisfactorily . Mr. WALTER . In the provisions of your bill , as I understand it , it ...
... going into the mechanism or machinery . We have provided a different process of review or periods when settlements are made . You can work that out satisfactorily . Mr. WALTER . In the provisions of your bill , as I understand it , it ...
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... going to have to also train men from industry . I think it will take almost a miracle to have it done in 4 months ... going to become of the millions of people who are going to be affected by the terminating of that contract ? I dodged ...
... going to have to also train men from industry . I think it will take almost a miracle to have it done in 4 months ... going to become of the millions of people who are going to be affected by the terminating of that contract ? I dodged ...
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... going to leave it alone , too . " Mr. HANCOCK . But you are wrong . Mr. WALTER . Let me call attention to the fact that when we took this bill up , taken up by the Post - War Planning Committee , which considered first the question of ...
... going to leave it alone , too . " Mr. HANCOCK . But you are wrong . Mr. WALTER . Let me call attention to the fact that when we took this bill up , taken up by the Post - War Planning Committee , which considered first the question of ...
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... going to provide quick payment to big contractors , and it will not have enough personnel to handle them all , I think you are going to have a tremendous political uproar that you are not handling the small men fairly . And when you ...
... going to provide quick payment to big contractors , and it will not have enough personnel to handle them all , I think you are going to have a tremendous political uproar that you are not handling the small men fairly . And when you ...
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... going to have a lot of men and that we are going to have to depend on a lot of men who are not as wise as Solomon . They are going to go out and see how your books are kept , not that they are bad , but that they do not fit what this ...
... going to have a lot of men and that we are going to have to depend on a lot of men who are not as wise as Solomon . They are going to go out and see how your books are kept , not that they are bad , but that they do not fit what this ...
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