Leavitt v. United States

A few months after the signing of the armistice the Government had on hand over 200,000,000 pounds of Army bacon. Some j>ortion of this enormous supply was what is known in the trade as five-year pack, and the remainder as two-year pack, indicating the time limit for safe consumption. Confronted thus with the problem of disposing of a vast quantity of surplus bacon, and desiring to save the Government harmless to the greatest possible extent, the Surplus Property Division of the War Department, in pursuance of law, on May 10, 1919, advertised for bids to purchase 2,493,386 pounds of this…