instrumentality of the United States
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From 308 U.S. 358 - Buckstaff Bath House Co. v. McKinley · 1939Most cited · 134 citing opinions
The mere fact that a private corporation conducts its business under a contract with the United States does not make it an instrumentality of the latter. That control, being wholly supervisory, is not to be differentiated from the type of control which the United States may reserve over any independent contractor without transforming him into its instrumentality.