Hills Materials Company v. Donald B. Rice, Secretary of the Air Force

How courts have described this case

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• mandating that, “[w]herever possible, words of a contract should be given their ordinary and common meaning.”
• emphasizing that every government contract must be read as a whole and that the P&R clause must be applied in a manner that accounts for all provi- sions of the agreement between the parties
• emphasizing that every government contract must be read as a whole and that the P & R clause must be applied in a manner that accounts for all provisions of the agreement between the parties
• interpreting contract to incorporate safety regulations extant when contract was signed and to shift responsibility for costs incurred as a result of new safety regulations to the Government
• interpreting contract to incorporate safety regulations extant when contract was signed and to shift responsibility for costs incurred as a result of new safety regulations to the Government
• construing an ambiguous contract clause against the government where the government had drafted the contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).