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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... Industry complained so vi- ciously about it that we opened hearings and spent 2 months , calling industry in , and they convinced us that it was wise to put standards in . Mr. HANCOCK . You were dealing with a new field . Mr. VINSON ...
... Industry complained so vi- ciously about it that we opened hearings and spent 2 months , calling industry in , and they convinced us that it was wise to put standards in . Mr. HANCOCK . You were dealing with a new field . Mr. VINSON ...
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... industry and labor groups . The present pro- cedure of contract termination is cumbersome and results in unneces- sary delays which are injurious to our economy . In the event of wholesale terminations , industrial and economical chaos ...
... industry and labor groups . The present pro- cedure of contract termination is cumbersome and results in unneces- sary delays which are injurious to our economy . In the event of wholesale terminations , industrial and economical chaos ...
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... industry to peaceful prosperity with jobs for all . This fact is ably set forth in the report of the Special House Committee on Post - war Economic Policy and Planning in endorsing H. R. 4789 , on May 11 and there is little that I can ...
... industry to peaceful prosperity with jobs for all . This fact is ably set forth in the report of the Special House Committee on Post - war Economic Policy and Planning in endorsing H. R. 4789 , on May 11 and there is little that I can ...
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... industry to peaceful prosperity with jobs for all . This fact is ably set forth in the report of the Special House Committee on Post - war Economic Policy and Planning in endorsing H. R. 4789 , on May 11 and there is little that I can ...
... industry to peaceful prosperity with jobs for all . This fact is ably set forth in the report of the Special House Committee on Post - war Economic Policy and Planning in endorsing H. R. 4789 , on May 11 and there is little that I can ...
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... industry . The test of " substantial injury " to an industry is in substance the same kind of test I have just discussed in connection with the sale of property , and it is subject to the same criticism . We should not refuse to sell ...
... industry . The test of " substantial injury " to an industry is in substance the same kind of test I have just discussed in connection with the sale of property , and it is subject to the same criticism . We should not refuse to sell ...
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Page 12 - May 27, 1940, and ending six months after the termination of hostilities in the present war, as proclaimed by the President...
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Page 507 - On behalf of the committee, I wish to thank you for your testimony today.
Page 478 - THEREFORE, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States...