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... steel , brass , nitrate , acetone , coal , cotton first in the race against time ? - Saving the French 75's - Pershing wants mules - Priority supreme . · CHAPTER IX THE CONTROL OF PRICES - - - Public justice and price - fixing ; but ...
... steel , brass , nitrate , acetone , coal , cotton first in the race against time ? - Saving the French 75's - Pershing wants mules - Priority supreme . · CHAPTER IX THE CONTROL OF PRICES - - - Public justice and price - fixing ; but ...
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... steel , tin , spool thread , typewriter ribbons , farm wagons , buggy axles , trace chains , motor- cycles , alarm clocks , tinfoil - Salvaging wool for nine hundred thousand uniforms - Peace - time benefits - Shaw meets Baruch ...
... steel , tin , spool thread , typewriter ribbons , farm wagons , buggy axles , trace chains , motor- cycles , alarm clocks , tinfoil - Salvaging wool for nine hundred thousand uniforms - Peace - time benefits - Shaw meets Baruch ...
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... steel - A nation's industries rock - The Board a storm center Demand breeds demand- The attitude of the steel producers - Replogle's faith - Baruch and Gary negotiate steel for the navy- - Wilson demands reasonable prices - Legge ...
... steel - A nation's industries rock - The Board a storm center Demand breeds demand- The attitude of the steel producers - Replogle's faith - Baruch and Gary negotiate steel for the navy- - Wilson demands reasonable prices - Legge ...
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... steel and steel products ( eleven sub- committees ) , oil , rubber , wool , and zinc . The General Munitions Board was not a month old before the members of the Advisory Commission began to see that it did not meet the demands of the ...
... steel and steel products ( eleven sub- committees ) , oil , rubber , wool , and zinc . The General Munitions Board was not a month old before the members of the Advisory Commission began to see that it did not meet the demands of the ...
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... steel , that set the fashion and moulded the motive of war coöperation . The President's hesitation is all the more perplexing when it is considered that Baruch was near to him and that he was near to Baruch . The chances are that ...
... steel , that set the fashion and moulded the motive of war coöperation . The President's hesitation is all the more perplexing when it is considered that Baruch was near to him and that he was near to Baruch . The chances are that ...
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Advisory Commission agencies Allies American Armour Fertilizer army Assistant to chief Association Baruch Board Former business Capt cent chairman Charles Chas Chicago civilian Cleveland commodity sections Conservation Division coöperation coördination cotton Council of National demand Department director division of planning economic Emergency Fleet Corporation engineer equipment executive Expert fire prevention section Frank functions George George W Government Henry indus Industries Board Former INDUSTRIES BOARD ORGANIZATION John labor leather Lieut lumber manager manufacturers Mass materials division ment metal military munitions National Defense navy nitrate nitric acid Ohio orders Pittsburgh planning and statistics plants platinum president United price-fixing priorities committee priorities division problem production purchasing railway raw materials Regional advisor representative Secretary Shipping Board smokeless powder Staff steel division supply tion toluol tons tool section transportation United Vice president War Department War Industries Board War Labor Administration War Trade Board Washington William wool York City
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Page 2 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States...
Page 279 - But, despite all our endeavors and hopes, should our country be drawn into the maelstrom of the European conflict, we, with these ideals of liberty and justice herein declared, as the indispensable basis for national policies, offer our services to our country in every field of activity to defend, safeguard and preserve the Republic of the United States of America against its enemies whomsoever they may be, and we call upon our fellow workers and fellow citizens in the holy name of Labor, Justice,...
Page 249 - ... our mines and our factories with which not only to clothe and equip our own forces on land and sea, but also to clothe and support our people for whom the gallant fellows under arms can no longer work; to help clothe and equip the armies with which we are co-operating in Europe and to keep the looms and manufactories there in raw...
Page 21 - ... and means of production, and availability of military supplies; the giving of information to producers and manufacturers as to the class of supplies needed by the military and other services of the government, the requirements relating thereto, and the creation of relations which will render possible in time of need the immediate concentration and utilization of the resources of the nation.
Page 164 - That the President is authorized, from time to time, to requisition foods, feeds, fuels, and other supplies necessary to the support of the Army or the maintenance of the Navy, or any other public use connected with the common defense...
Page 37 - The Board will act as a clearing house for the war industry needs of the Government, determine the most effective ways of meeting them and the best means and methods of increasing production, including the creation or extension of industries demanded by the emergency, the sequence and relative urgency of the needs of the different Government services, and consider price factors, and in the first instance the industrial and labor aspects of the problems involved and the general questions affecting...
Page 50 - ... source of manufacture or supply, or when contracts have not been placed in such a way as to get advantage of the full productive capacity of the country. (5) To see that contracts and deliveries are followed up where such assistance as is indicated under (3) and (4) above has proved to be necessary. (6) To anticipate the prospective needs of the several supply departments of the Government and their feasible adjustment to the industry of the country as far in advance as possible, in order that...
Page 102 - Board evolved a general formula, which is herewith appended because it contains its theory of organization and policy of procedure — because it shows what the board was and what it tried to do. It read : " Wars are fought and won— or lost — on the land, on the water, in the air. and on those battle lines behind the front where the civilian forces stand.
Page 49 - The determination, wherever necessary, of priorities of production and of delivery and of the proportions of any given article to be made immediately accessible to the several purchasing agencies when the supply of that article is insufficient, either temporarily or permanently; (6) The making of purchases for the Allies. The Board should be constituted as at present and should retain, so far as necessary and so far as consistent with the character and purposes of the reorganization, its present...
Page 490 - ... to the President or to the heads of executive departments upon special inquiries or subjects appropriate thereto, and an annual report to the Congress shall be submitted through the President, including as full a statement of the activities of the council and the agencies subordinate to it as is consistent with the public interest, including an itemized account of the expenditures made by the council or authorized by it, in as full detail as the public interest will permit: Proinded, however,...