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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... question . So we are all indebted to Mr. Han- cock and Mr. Baruch for the fine approach they have made to the important question of the termination of contracts . Now , we were so much impressed with certain phases of it that , without ...
... question . So we are all indebted to Mr. Han- cock and Mr. Baruch for the fine approach they have made to the important question of the termination of contracts . Now , we were so much impressed with certain phases of it that , without ...
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... question that confronted the Navy Department . I had to restrict the bill , when I introduced it , to the Naval Affairs Committee . When we got jurisdiction , we broadened it to extend it to all the departments . I am happy to see that ...
... question that confronted the Navy Department . I had to restrict the bill , when I introduced it , to the Naval Affairs Committee . When we got jurisdiction , we broadened it to extend it to all the departments . I am happy to see that ...
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... question is asked , " Why can we not have some uniformity ? " If Congress will write standards with enough flexibility and fluid enough , this can be ac- complished . Mr. WALTER . So that in each one of the several ordnance districts of ...
... question is asked , " Why can we not have some uniformity ? " If Congress will write standards with enough flexibility and fluid enough , this can be ac- complished . Mr. WALTER . So that in each one of the several ordnance districts of ...
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... questions of fraud , which , of course , obviously means that he would be in on questions of discretion , and then we would get right up to the argument between the Comp- troller General and the contracting agency wholly on the question ...
... questions of fraud , which , of course , obviously means that he would be in on questions of discretion , and then we would get right up to the argument between the Comp- troller General and the contracting agency wholly on the question ...
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... question which was up to him . A provision like this , which looks in the direction of renegotiating expenses after the fact , would seem to me to raise a question that would want to be considered very carefully . Mr. HANCOCK . This ...
... question which was up to him . A provision like this , which looks in the direction of renegotiating expenses after the fact , would seem to me to raise a question that would want to be considered very carefully . Mr. HANCOCK . This ...
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Accounting Office administrative Albert Lea American amount audit authority BATT believe BIDDLE bill capital CHAIRMAN CLAYTON Comptroller Congress Contract Settlement contract termination contracting agency contracting officers COOPER cost course CRAWFORD demobilization Department Director disposal economy employment enactment ESTES KEFAUVER February 22 Federal fraud going Government agency HANCOCK HATTON W industry interest interim financing inventory JOHNSTON KEFAUVER labor legislation loans materials Maury Maverick MAVERICK ment Navy NELSON peacetime percent Plants Corporation post-war period prime contractor problem procedures procurement agencies Production Board proposed protection question reasonable Reconstruction Finance Corporation reconversion responsibility Senator KILGORE Senator MURRAY settle small business Smaller War Plants statement subcontractors surplus property terminated war contracts termination claims termination settlements things tion United VINSON VOORHIS WALTER War Powers Act War Production Board WARREN WOLVERTON workers YATES ZIMMERMAN
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