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Show War Department Has Emergency Contracts on Hand WASHINGTON. Oct. IS The WBJ department still has on it hands 5724 emergency contracts awaiting liquidation, liquida-tion, according to a report issued to day. The sum involved aggiegates I more than ?1 .600.000.000, but the ;ffi i tial schedule estimates that these contracts can be liquidated at a cost ti $300,000,000. Since the armistice 22,611 contracts have been settled with a total valuation valua-tion of $2,000,000,000 for which ton-iracVrs ton-iracVrs were paid $309,000.00 in the finnl settlement. nn |