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taking for public use

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From 282 U.S. 399 - International Paper Co. v. United States · 1931Most cited · 153 citing opinions

it did not make the taking any less a taking for public use by its logically subsequent direction that the power should be delivered to private companies for work deemed more useful than the manufacture of paper for the exigencies of the national security and defence