EXCESSIVE PROFITS SUSPECTED
TOOL-MAKERS REFUSE TO SUB.XHT BOOKS LONDON. Dei-. 20. An official report of evidence given to a select committee on the Estimates reveal that the Under-Secretary to the Treasury, Sir Alan Barlow, told the committee last March that the Treasury had a suspicion that machine tool-makers engaged in the national defence programme were making excessive profits. He was met by the suspects’ blank refusal to submit their books to costing. The money involved is pretty considerable and the Government will have to consider taking legislative
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 302, 22 December 1939, Page 7
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