The remaining statutes simply provide for publication of agency action, although in a context which indicates that publication could be viewed as a check upon the agency’s discretion. The Coordinator of Transportation, an office created by the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act of 1933, was required to make public in such reasonable manner as he might determine orders which he issued under the Act.[452] The orders were to become effective not less than twenty days from the date of publication[453] and in the interim interested parties might file petitions asking that the order be reviewed and suspended pending review.[454] The Chairman of the War Production Board, acting with the Attorney General, was given the power with regard to the antitrust laws and the Federal Trade Commission Act to temporarily suspend action against violators. The Attorney General was required to order published in the _Federal Register_ every instance of the exercise of this power.[455] The Japanese Evacuation Claims Act of July 1948 provided that written records of hearings, open to public inspection, be maintained.[456] In formulating new criteria for identification of a critical defense housing area Congress, in the Housing and Rent Act of 1953, required publication in the _Federal Register_ of notices that before applying the new criteria, a determination had been made to the effect that a specified area constituted a critical defense housing area.[457] SUPPRESSION OF INFORMATION BY GOVERNMENT Statutory provisions falling within this category may be subdivided into four groupings: (a) exceptions to statutory reporting requirement; (b) suspension of the requirement that contracts be let only after public bidding; (c) suppression of information concerning patent applications of military significance; (d) maintenance of secrecy of testimony under certain conditions at the request of the person testifying.