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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... thing on renegotiation - and renegotiation originated with our com- mittee . At first we did not have any factors ... things can be set out in his bill of particulars that will be given consideration . Of course , we do not require ...
... thing on renegotiation - and renegotiation originated with our com- mittee . At first we did not have any factors ... things can be set out in his bill of particulars that will be given consideration . Of course , we do not require ...
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... thing as much as possible . Mr. HANCOCK . I am sure that the thought throughout the whole organization is to have an ... things we cannot agree on . ' My only concern is that having got a bill through the Senate , if we are going to have ...
... thing as much as possible . Mr. HANCOCK . I am sure that the thought throughout the whole organization is to have an ... things we cannot agree on . ' My only concern is that having got a bill through the Senate , if we are going to have ...
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... things first . Mr. VINSON . That is a thing that has sometime got to be raised . Some day somebody has got to think it out . I am anxious to see how Mr. Hancock and Mr. Baruch are going to reach a decision on the service pay for all ...
... things first . Mr. VINSON . That is a thing that has sometime got to be raised . Some day somebody has got to think it out . I am anxious to see how Mr. Hancock and Mr. Baruch are going to reach a decision on the service pay for all ...
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... things . Suppose the case of a big contract . Say the X company had a billion - dollar contract , and he felt that in some little part of it there was some fraud . Undoubtedly in every big contract there are some things that do not go ...
... things . Suppose the case of a big contract . Say the X company had a billion - dollar contract , and he felt that in some little part of it there was some fraud . Undoubtedly in every big contract there are some things that do not go ...
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... thing . I am not critical . Now , I think I have covered the things I have noted here . Mr. WALTER . Mr. Hancock , can you give us any idea of the number of contracts let by the Government ? Mr. HANCOCK . Well , there is a variety of ...
... thing . I am not critical . Now , I think I have covered the things I have noted here . Mr. WALTER . Mr. Hancock , can you give us any idea of the number of contracts let by the Government ? Mr. HANCOCK . Well , there is a variety of ...
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