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Title: Convey v. Omaha Nat. Bank.
Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Release Date : January 13, 1943
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 59 KB

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The critial question is whether the contracting system used by the War Department in purchasing land for a munitionsplant site at Weldon Springs, St. Charles County, Missouri, which allowed the landowners to fix their selling price and to add five per cent thereto as compensation to the Governments optioning agent, was a "cost-plus-a-percentage-of-cost system of contracting", within the prohibition of section 1 of the National Defense Act of July 2, 1940, 54 Stat. 712, 50 U.S.C.A. Appendix, 1171.