Legal Opinion
United States v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 16, 1942No. Nos. 8, 9PublishedCited by 162 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
These two cases arise from a dispute between Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd., and the Government about the amount of profits claimed by Bethlehem under thirteen war-time contracts for building ships. The contracts were negotiated and executed in 1917 and 1918, when Germany’s destructive warfare against our ocean shipping essential to the successful prosecution of the war made it necessary for the United States to build the greatest possible number of ships in the shortest possible time. They are typical products of a system of procurement heavily relied upon by the United States…
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