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War Department or the Navy Department, or such ;art of any manufacturing plant as may be so engaged, shall at all times be subject to inspection and audit by any person designated by the head of any executive department of the Govern-ment.

(m)All audits and reports of inspection, made under the provisions of this section, shall be preserved by the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy, as the case may be, for a period of ten years, and shall be subject to inspection by any committee of Congress, and the said Secretaries shall annually make a detailed and itemized report to Congress of all the departments' operations under this section,  the names and addresses of all competitors, and of all persons having been awards contracts and the prices paid for aircraft purchased and the grounds and reasons for having awarded such contracts to particular persons, firms, or corporations, and all such reports shall be printed and held subject to public distribution.
(n)Every vendor of designs to the War Department or the Navy Department under the provisions of this section, and eveny contractor for furnishing or constructing for the War Department or the Navy Department, or both, aircraft or aircraft parts or aeronautical accessories, shall deliver to the Secretary of War or Secretary of the Navy, or both, when required by either or both, a release in such a form and containing such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, or both, of claims on the part of such vendor or contractor against the United States arising out of such sale or contract, or both.
(o)All or any appropriations available for the procurement of air-craft, aircraft parts, or aeronautical accessories, for the War Department or the Navy Department shall also be available for payment of the purchase price of designs and the costs of arbitration as authorized by the section.
(p)Any collusion, understanding, or arrangement to deprive the United States Government of the benefit of full and free competition in any com-petition authorized by this section, or to deprive the United State Govern-ment of the benefit of a full and fee audit of the books of any person, firm, or corporation engaged in carrying out any contract authorized by this section, so far as may be necessary to disclose the exact cost of executing such contract, shall be unlawful, and any person, firm, or corporation that 

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