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HAMPERED IN UNITED STATES TROUBLE OVER PROFITS LIMITATION. TALK OF CONSCRIPTING INDUSTRY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 20. The Army and Navy authorities recently were unable to place contracts for 5.725 aeroplanes, also guns for 28 destroyers, because manufacturers objected to profit limitations. Several members of Hie Appropriations Committee expressed the opinion that the Government should conscript industry. Evidence, given to the committee by Navy chiefs indicated that manufacturers preferred business witli the British Purchasing Commission, in which they were not bound by profit limitations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1940, Page 5
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92ARMS PRODUCTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1940, Page 5
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