UNITED STATES v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION

Nos. 7045, 7119, No. 7046.

113 F.2d 301 (1940)

UNITED STATES v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION et al. BETHLEHEM SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION, Limited, v. UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD MERCHANT FLEET CORPORATION. UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD MERCHANT FLEET CORPORATION v. BETHLEHEM SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION, Limited.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

June 18, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis M. Shea, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Cullen Ganey, U. S. Atty., of Philadelphia, Pa., Carl F. Farbach, General Counsel, U. S. Maritime Commission, Paul D. Page, Jr., and Hardin B. Price, all of Washington, D. C. (Frederick Bernays Wiener, of Providence, R. I., of counsel), for United States and United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation.

Richardson Dilworth, and Evans, Bayard & Frick, all of Philadelphia, Pa. (Frederick H. Wood, and William W. Robison, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellees in Nos. 7045 and 7046.

Richardson Dilworth and Evans, Bayard & Frick, all of Philadelphia, Pa. (Frederick H. Wood, and William W. Robison, both of New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant in No. 7119, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd.

Frederick Bernays Weiner, of Washington, D. C., for appellee in 7119 United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation.

Before BIGGS, MARIS, and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


MARIS, Circuit Judge.

In 1917 this country was at war. The war emergency made it necessary for the Government to take over all ships suitable for war purposes then under construction at the various shipyards throughout the United States and to arrange with shipbuilders for the construction of as many additional vessels as possible and to construct them with the utmost speed. In the fall of that year the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation (now...

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