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Harry Truman: The principle that the Government should compensate war contractors, and volunteers acting without contracts, for losses…

On the recordJuly 10, 1949
The principle that the Government should compensate war contractors, and volunteers acting without contracts, for losses sustained by them in activities related to the war has not generally been accepted.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Veto of Bill To Amend the Contract Settlement Act of 1944.

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