Authorizing the Secretary of War to Use Funds for Adjustment of Contracts: Hearings, June 23-25, 29, 1943U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943 |
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adjustment advance or partial advance payments agree agreement amendment approved armistice Army audit authority award bill BURTON cancelation clause CHAIRMAN Chief of Ordnance Colonel CUTTER Colonel ROYALL committee completed connection contract price contracting officer cost delay delivery Department Claims Board determined draft DURHAM equipment expenditures funds going Government guaranteed loans guaranty incurred JUNE 23 KENNEY labor legislation manufacture MARBURY Maritime Commission MARTIN materials ment Midvale MORGAN Navy Department negotiated notice of termination obligations Ordnance Department original contract paid paragraph partial payments percent percentage performance plant Pont present prime contractor procurement production profit provisions purpose question reason regulations Remington Arms renegotiation respect rifles Secretary Secretary of War settle SIKES smokeless powder specified supplemental supply contracts tanks termination article termination clause termination of contracts thereof tion tractor Treasury uncompleted portion United War Industries Board War Powers Act War Production Board War-Ord water-dried
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Page 128 - An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of those ores, metals, and minerals which have formerly been largely imported, or of which there is or may be an inadequate supply." The said Secretary shall make such adjustments and payments in each case ashe shall determine to be just and equitable...
Page 27 - Government, the extent to which performance of work under the contract is terminated, and the date upon which such termination becomes effective.
Page 30 - Whenever for any reason the Contracting Officer shall determine that such termination is in the best interest of the Government. Any such termination shall be effected by delivery to the Contractor of a Notice of Termination...
Page 31 - The delay in the completion of the work arises from unforeseeable causes beyond the control and without the fault or negligence of the Contractor...
Page 26 - ... and the contractor shall, as a condition of receiving the payments mentioned in this article, execute and deliver all such papers, and take all such steps as the contracting officer may require for the purpose of fully vesting in him the rights and benefits of the contractor under such obligations or commitments.
Page 24 - In addition to, and without duplication of, the payments provided for in paragraph (b), or of payments made prior to the termination of this contract, the Government shall pay to the Contractor such sum as the Contracting Officer and the Contractor may agree by Supplemental Agreement is reasonably necessary to compensate the Contractor for his costs, expenditures, liabilities, commitments, and work in respect to the uncompleted portion of the contract so far as terminated by the notice...
Page 126 - November twelfth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, by any cffirrr or agent acting under his authority, direction, or instruction, or that of the President, with any person, firm, or corporation for the acquisition of lands, or the use thereof, or for damages resulting from notice by the Government of its intention to acquire or...
Page 25 - Owner shall also be at liberty to terminate the employment of the Contractor for the said work and to enter upon the premises and take possession, for the purpose of completing the work included under this contract, of all materials, tools and appliances thereon, and to employ any other person or persons to finish the work, and to provide the materials therefor...
Page 129 - ... termination or limitation of the war or if in anticipation thereof or because of changes in methods of warfare, the Chief of Ordnance should be of the opinion that the completion of this contract has become unnecessary. It is therefore provided that at any time and from time to time during the currency of this contract, the Chief of Ordnance may for any of the causes .above stated notify the contractor that any part or parts of the articles then remaining undelivered shall not be manufactured...
Page 128 - ... provided; that all payments and expenses incurred by said Secretary, including personal services, traveling and subsistence expenses, supplies, postage, printing, and all other expenses incident to the proper prosecution of this work, both in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, as the Secretary of the Interior may deem essential and proper, shall be paid from the funds appropriated by the said act of October fifth...