...connection with the prosecution of the war effort * * * to enter into contracts and into amendments or modifications of contracts heretofore or hereafter...action would facilitate the prosecution of the war * * *. Section 401 of the same Act provides : Titles I and II of this Act [of which section 201 is...

...within the limits of the amounts appropriated therefor to enter into contracts and into amendments or modifications of contracts heretofore or hereafter...performance, amendment, or modification of contracts." (Italics ours.) The contracts in question, which were on "WD Contract Form No. 2," were issued, in...

...USC App. 611), "within the limits of the amounts appropriated therefor to enter into contracts * * * without regard to the provisions of law relating to...performance, amendment, or modification of contracts." As explained in the committee reports, that act was intended to, and did, liberalize existing statutes...

...other payments thereon, without regard to the provisions of laic relating to the making, pcrfonnance, amendment, or modification of contracts whenever he...action would facilitate the prosecution of the war : Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed to authorize the use of the cost-plus-a-percentage-of-cost...

...prescribed or approved by the Secretary of Defense, to enter into contracts and into amendments or modifications of contracts, heretofore or hereafter...performance, amendment, or modification of contracts. 2. These regulations set forth the standards governing the exercise of certain of the authority made...

...for the protection of the interest of the Government, to enter into contracts and into amendments or modifications of contracts heretofore or hereafter...action would facilitate the prosecution of the war * * *" It is possible that the Emergency Price Control Act was enacted in the light of that provision...

...within the limits of the amounts appropriated therefor to enter into contracts and into amendments or modifications of contracts heretofore or hereafter...performance, amendment, or modification of contracts. The authority herein conferred may be exercised by the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy,...

...authority to him to exercise the following powers: (a) To enter into contracts and into amendments or modifications of contracts heretofore or hereafter...performance, amendment or modification of contracts. (b) By agreement, to modify or amend or settle claims under contracts, make advance, progress and other...

..."within the limits of the amounts appropriated therefor, to enter into contracts and Into amendments or modifications of contracts heretofore or hereafter...progress, and other payments thereon, without regard to tho provisions of law relating to the making, amendment, or modification of contracts" and to delegate...

...civilian officials of the War Department to exercise power to enter into contracts and into amendments or modifications of contracts heretofore or hereafter...make advance, progress and other payments thereon shall constitute a redelegation by the Commanding General, Army Service Forces of the authority delegated...