Note 1419 — ARTICLE I (continued 6)

Sloan Shipyards v. United States Fleet Corp., 258 U.S. 549 (1922). In 1944, the Congressional Joint Committee on Nonessential Federal Expenditures reported that there were then in existence one hundred government corporations, including subsidiaries and quasi-private corporations in which the Government had some special contractual or proprietary interest. S. Doc. No. 227, 78th Cong., 2d sess. 2 (1944).