Demobilization

INDEX

• Aberdeen Proving Ground, 176
• Abuse of Uniform, 109–110
• Agriculture, Department of:
• Army supplies transferred to, 43, 275–276
• Army surplus nitrate sold by, 274
• Aircraft:
• Production, 199–203
• Storage, 208
• Aircraft Board, 204
• Aircraft Industrial Demobilization, 204–207
• Airplane Engines:
• Returned by A. E. F., 210
• Sale of surplus, 280
• War production, 202–203, 206
• Airplane Lumber, 280
• Airplane Lumber Claim, 293–294
• Airplanes:
• Burning of unserviceable, 211–213
• Contracts, 199
• Production, 202, 206
• Returned by A. E. F., 210–211
• Sale of surplus, 280
• Air Service: Demobilization of, 50, 133, 204, 207, 280–281
• Air Service Claims Board, 204
• Air Service of A. E. F.:
• Demobilization, 210–213
• Maintenance cost, 203
• Allies: Business settlement with, 287–288, 313–314
• Allotments, 71–72
• Amatol Arsenal, 188
• American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co.: Builders of Erie Howitzer Plant, 171
• American Car & Foundry Co.:
• Claim of, 156
• Post-armistice production by, 179
• American Cyanamid Co.: Process of, at Muscle Shoals fixation plant, 184
• American Expeditionary Forces:
• Identification of dead of, 85, 89–91
• Repatriation of, 38–42
• Strength of, 1
• Welfare activities in, 92–97
• American Legion:
• And abuse of uniform, 110
• And bonus, 69
• And disabled veterans, 104
• American Red Cross:
• Bonus payment aided by, 69
• Demobilization camp banks of, 110
• Soldier reëmployment campaign aided by, 109
• Ammonium Nitrate, 274
• Ammunition, Artillery: Disposal of, 188–190
• Anglo-American Tank Project, 298–300
• Anglo-American Tanks: Purchase of British parts for, 300–301
• Animals: See Horses and Mules
• Appel, Monte: Claims against French settled by, 295
• Appraisers, War Department Board of, 142
• Army:
• Status of demobilization, February 28, 1919, 50
• Strength, 1
• Army Retail Stores, 282–285
• Army Subsistence School, 247–248
• Artillery Carriages: Demobilization of industry producing, 174–175
• Artillery, Field:
• Production, 164, 175, 176
• Reserve manufacturing facilities for, 168, 172
• Reserves of, 175, 176
• Artillery, Motorization of, 194
• Artillery, Railway: Demobilization of industry producing, 176–180
• Assistant Secretary of War, The:
• As president of War Department Claims Board, 135
• Purchase of cantonment sites ordered by, 265
• Attorney General: Ruling of, against commission agents, 123
• Ayer, Lieut. Col. F. R.: On Ordnance Claims Board, 147
• Babcock, Col. Conrad S.: “Pershing’s Own Regiment” trained by, 94
• Baggage, Military, 74–75
• See also Lost Baggage
• Baggage Service, 75–78
• Baldridge, Private C. LeRoy: On Stars and Stripes, 96
• Balloons, 203, 206, 213
• Barnes, Lieut. Col. A. V.: Chief of Baltimore ordnance district, 149
• Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.: Optical glass produced by, 192–193
• Beaune, University of, 93
• Belgian Government: Supplies sold to, 189, 216, 241, 252
• Belgian Relief Commission, 241
• Benson, Admiral William S.: And German passenger vessels, 36
• Billy, M. Édouard de: On French Liquidation Commission, 294
• Bonus, 51, 69–70
• Boosters and Adapters, 186
• Bordeaux: As port of embarkation for A. E. F., 11, 12, 16, 19–24, 25, 28
• Boston: As port of debarkation, 54
• Bound Brook Tetranitroaniline Plant, 182
• Boy Scouts: Walnut trees hunted by, 157
• Brashear Co., J. A.: Prisms for panoramic sights produced by, 191
• Brass, 277
• Brest: As port of embarkation for A. E. F., 11, 12, 16, 17, 24–25, 29
• Briggs & Turivas: Senter tetryl plant bought by, 182
• Briggs, Lieut. Col. M. F.: On Ordnance Claims Board, 147
• British Army: Unidentified dead of, 84
• British Government:
• American claims paid by, 294
• American surplus aircraft sold by, 213
• Ships of, withdrawn from American service, 31
• Britt, Field Clerk James A.: On Stars and Stripes, 95
• Browns: Number of, in Army, 70
• Bryant, Waldo C.: Chief of Bridgeport ordnance district, 148
• Buford, U. S. A. T.: Conversion of, 35
• Bulk Sale of A. E. F. Property, 309–312
• Bullard Engineering Works: Demobilization of ordnance work at, 165–167
• Burr, Maj. Gen. G. W.:
• British claims settled by, 303–304
• On War Department Claims Board, 135
• Burr-Niemeyer Agreement, 303–304
• Bush Terminal Co.: Cartridge cloth sold by, 280
• Camphor, 285
• Camps, Sale of, 261–264
• Candles, Toxic, 223–226
• Cantonments: Purchase of sites of, 264–266
• Cape May, U. S. A. C. T.: Loading record of, 40
• Cargo: Quantity of A. E. F., returned, 42–43
• Cargo Transports, Conversion of, 32, 34–35
• Cartridge Cloth, 278–280
• Castor Bean Case, 208–210
• Cemeteries, American, in Europe, 86–89
• Charleston: As port of debarkation, 54
• Châteauroux Tank Plant, 195
• Chemical Warfare Service:
• Demobilization activities of, 133, 220–227, 282
• Nitrogen fixation plant built for, 184–185
• Chicago Storage Depot, 187
• Claims, Soldiers’, 70–73
• Classification Board, 142
• Coffin, Howard E.: As chairman of Aircraft Board, 204
• Combat Troops, Embarkation of, 13
• Commerce, Secretary of: War contract conference called by, 117
• Construction Division, 257–266
• Construction Division Claims Board, 260
• Construction in France, 214, 215
• Contract Adjustment, Board of:
• Function, 124, 137
• Informal contracts settled by, 140–141
• Contractors, Ordnance, 159–162
• Contract Review, Superior Board of, 122–124
• Contracts: See Cost-plus Contracts and War Contracts
• Contracts and Adjustments, Board of, 237
• Contracts, Class A, 140
• Contracts, Class B, 140
• Contracts, Informal, 126–128, 139–141
• Contracts, Surveyor of, 121
• Copper, 274
• Cost-plus Contracts, 114–116, 117–121, 124–125
• Council of National Defense, 106–107, 248
• Cross-Channel Cable, A. E. F., 229
• Cupro-nickel, 277–278
• Cuthell Board, 288–296
• Cuthell, Chester W.: Activities of, in settlement of international claims, 290–296
• Cuthell Board organized by, 288
• Cuthell-Inverforth Agreement, 291, 293
• Czecho-Slovakia: Supplies bought by, 242
• Czecho-Slovak Siberian Troops, 46 (footnote)
• Daily Mail, London: Stars and Stripes printed in plant of, 95
• Dawes, Brig. Gen. Charles G.: On United States Liquidation Commission, 296, 297
• Debarkation Camps, 55–57
• Deceased Soldiers’ Effects, 80–83
• Delano, Col. F. A.: French railroad transportation claim settled by, 308
• Delousing, 17–19, 57
• Demobilization Centers, 49
• Demobilization Problems, 3, 4–8
• Dent Act, 128, 140
• Diphenolchlorarsine, 223–226
• Disability in Service, 63 (footnote)
• Dodge Brothers:
• Recuperator plant of, 172–174
• Truck contracts with, 232
• Dorr, G. H.:
• On War Department Claims Board, 135
• Dravo, Ralph M.: Chief of Pittsburg ordnance district, 150
• Du Pont Powder Co.:
• Claim of, 156
• Dyes manufactured by, 182
• Early, Capt. Stephen T.: On Stars and Stripes, 96
• Eddystone Rifle Plant, 196
• Effects Bureau, 80–83
• Embarkation Camps, A. E. F., 16–17
• Embarkation Service:
• Merged in Transportation Service, 57
• Employment Service, United States, 106–108
• Engineer Claims Board, 219
• Engineer Department, 50, 213–219, 281–282
• Engineering Supplies, 216–218
• Equipment, Soldier’s, 21
• Erie Howitzer Plant, 167, 171
• Erie Proving Ground, 176
• Eustis, Camp Abraham, 177
• Expeditionary Bases, Disposal of, 45–46, 258
• Final-payment rolls, 66
• Finance, Director of:
• And final payment to officers, 67–69
• And wounded soldiers, 65–66
• Finance Service, 64–69, 133, 266
• First Censor and Press Company, 96
• First Division, 29, 59–62
• Fisher, Harry A.: On Cuthell Board, 294
• Fisher, William: On Cuthell Board, 294
• Fixed Nitrogen Commission, 183, 185
• Food Administration, United States: Contract settlements of, 141
• Ford Motor Co.:
• Tank contracts with, 195
• Truck contracts with, 232
• Forest Service: Supplies turned over to, 228
• Forward to the Farm! Why Not?: In reëmployment campaign, 110
• Frankford Arsenal: Machinery concentrated at, 181, 187, 191, 192, 198
• French Claims, 306–308
• French Government:
• American supplies purchased by, 190, 213, 216, 229, 230, 238–240, 242, 245, 252, 281, 311–313
• Claims negotiations with, 217, 295, 306–309
• French Liquidation Commission, 294
• Gas Defense Division, 220
• Gas, Toxic, 220–222, 226–227
• General Sales Agent and Board, 240, 241
• General Vehicle Co.: French contract with, settled, 295
• Genicart, Camp, 23
• German Passenger Ships, 35–36
• Goethals, Maj. Gen. G. W.: Purchase, Storage, and Traffic Division built around, 234
• Graham, Col. J. H.:
• A. E. F. property inventoried by, 309–310
• Grand Central Palace Debarkation Hospital, 99
• Graves Registration Service, 85–91
• Great Northern, U. S. A. T., 39
• Greenhut Building Debarkation Hospital, 99
• Greenwood, Levi H.: Chief of Boston ordnance district, 148
• Gun Plants, 167–168
• Gwinn, Ralph W.: Work of, on Cuthell Board, 291, 292
• Harness, 286
• Harrisburg Manufacturing & Boiler Co.: Railway artillery produced after armistice by, 178, 179
• Harrison, C. L.: Chief of Cincinnati ordnance district, 150
• Hawley, Private Hudson: On Stars and Stripes, 95
• Hidden-loss Claim, British, 302–303
• Hill, Camp, 55
• Hines, Brig. Gen. Frank T.:
• As chief of Transportation Service, 57
• Foreign passenger vessels secured by, 36
• Plan of, for repatriation of A. E. F., 30–32
• Hoboken Casual Companies, 56
• Hollis, Hon. Henry F.: On United States Liquidation Commission, 296, 297
• Hoover, Herbert: Surplus food purchased by, 241
• Horses and Mules, 244–246, 253–255
• Horse Shows in A. E. F., 94
• Hospital Trains, 99–100
• Howe, Richard F.: On Aircraft Board, 204
• Humphreys, Camp, 268
• Imperator, S. S., 36
• Imperial Munitions Board: American contracts in Canada settled by, 140, 142, 148
• Informal Contracts: See Contracts, Informal
• Inland Traffic Service, 57
• Interallied Maritime Transport Council, 36
• Interdepartmental Conference, 117–121
• Interior, Secretary of: Army lands sold by, 267
• Invalid Contracts: See Contracts, Informal
• Inventory and Appraisal of A. E. F. Property, 309–311
• Inverforth, Lord: Empowered to deal with Cuthell Board, 290–291
• Italian Government: American claims paid by, 295
• Jackling, D. C.: Nitro powder plant contracts adjusted by, 142–143
• Jadwin, Brig. Gen. Edgar: A. E. F. installations appraised by, 310
• Jadwin Report, 310
• Japan Paper Co.: Ordnance claim of, 158
• Johnson, Homer H.: On United States Liquidation Commission, 296, 297
• Jones, John C.: Chief of Philadelphia Ordnance district, 149
• Keuffel & Esser: Optical glass produced by, 192–193
• Labor, Department of: War industry terminated on advice of, 131, 132
• Lamont, Col. R. P.: On Ordnance Claims Board, 147
• La Pallice, 12
• Layton, W. T.: On Inverforth Commission, 291
• League of Nations, 318
• Leather, 286
• Le Havre, 12
• Le Mans: Embarkation area at, 13–15, 23, 24, 28, 53–54
• Lewis, Capt. W. Lee: Lewisite invented by, 223
• Lewisite, 223, 226
• Liberty Engine Claim, 292, 293
• Liquidation Commission, United States:
• Claims settled by, 217, 298–303, 304–305, 306–309
• Creation, function, and policies of, 288–290, 296
• Property sold by, 210, 240, 309–313
• Loading Plants, 188
• Lost Baggage, 72, 75–77, 79–80
• Lost Baggage Bureau, 75, 76–77, 78–79
• Loucheur, M. Louis: Refusal of, to pay Anglo-American tank claim, 300
• Lumber, 273
• Mahogany, 280
• Marion Steam Shovel Co.: Railway artillery produced after armistice by, 178
• Marlin-Rockwell Corp.: Ordnance claim of, 156
• Marseilles, 12
• Marshall, Waldo H.: On Ordnance Claims Board, 147
• Maui, U. S. A. C. T., 39–40
• Maxwell-Chalmers Co.: Tractors produced by, 194
• Mayor’s Committee of Welcome, 55
• McClellan, U. S. A. T., 25
• McLane Silk Co.: Cartridge cloth sold by, 280
• Meade, Camp, 62
• Medical Department: Demobilization activities of, 49, 61–64, 97–101
• Medical Supplies, 232, 233
• Meigs, Camp, 66
• Meloney, Major William Brown: Reëmployment pamphlet written by, 108
• Merritt, Camp, 55–56
• Midvale Steel & Ordnance Co.:
• Howitzer plant of, 179–180
• Rifle plant of, 196
• “Mill” at Bordeaux, 19–23
• Mills, Camp, 55, 56
• Mines, Bureau of: Nitrogen fixation plant built by, 184–185
• Mobile Repair Shops, 195
• Morel, M. Paul: A. E. F. property purchased for France by, 311–312
• Morgan Engineering Co.: Post-armistice production of railway artillery by, 178–179
• Motor Transport Corps, 49, 230–232
• Motor Vehicles, 230–232
• Mules: See Horses and Mules
• Muscle Shoals Nitrogen Plant, 183, 184, 185
• National Defense Act, 114
• National Defense, Council of, 106–107, 248
• Navy Department:
• Army property turned over to, 180, 275
• Operation of troopships relinquished by, 33
• U. S. A. T. Northern Pacific repaired by, 42
• Warships used as troopships by, 36
• Nebraska Aircraft Corp.: Army airplanes bought by, 280
• Nervous and Mental Cases in Army, 102
• Neuve, Camp, 23
• Neville Island Gun Plant, 180
• New York: As port of debarkation, 54
• New York Air Brake Co.: Ordnance claims of, 156
• Newport News: Debarkation at, 54, 99
• Newport News Shipbuilding Co.: Use of, by Transportation Service, 34
• Nitrate of Soda, 274
• Nitrogen Fixation Plants, 183–185
• Nitro Powder Plant, 142–143, 182, 262, 276
• Noble, Frank S.: Chief of Rochester ordnance district, 149
• Northern Pacific, U. S. A. T., 42
• Northwestern Ordnance Co.: Machinery of, transferred to Erie Howitzer Plant, 171
• Officers:
• Final payments to, 67–69
• Transportation of, from France, 41–42
• Old Hickory Powder Plant, 181
• Operations Division, 259
• Optical Glass, 192–194
• Optical Instruments, 192
• Ordnance Claims Board, 146–147
• Ordnance Contractors, 159–162
• Ordnance Department: Demobilization activities of, 133, 146, 147–159, 163, 164–165
• Ordnance Industry, 145–146
• Ordnance Plants, 276
• Ordnance Salvage Board, 275–280
• Otis Elevator Co.: Recuperator plant of, 173, 174
• Parker, Edwin B.: Chairman of United States Liquidation Commission, 296, 297
• Peirce, Brig. Gen. W. S.: Chief of Ordnance Claims Board, 147
• Perryville Ammonium Nitrate Plant, 182
• Pershing, Gen. J. J.:
• A. E. F. disbanded by, 12, 37
• Armistice announced by, 1
• Departure of, from France, 29
• Parades with First Division, 59–61
• Stars and Stripes supported by, 95, 96–97
• “Pershing’s Own Regiment,” 94
• Pershing Stadium, 94, 215
• Physiotherapy, 100–101
• Picatinny Arsenal: Machinery concentrated at, 181, 187, 188
• Picric Acid Plants, 182
• Pittsburg Plate Glass Co.: Optical glass produced by, 192–193
• Platinum, 277
• Polish Relief Corp., 242
• Pontanezen, Camp, 16–17
• Ports of Embarkation, A. E. F., 10–11, 12, 39
• Portugal: A. E. F. supplies bought by, 242
• Post Office Department: Supplies turned over to, 228
• Powder Plants, 181, 182
• Preparedness: American post-armistice state of, 319
• Public Health Service, 101–102, 103–104, 252, 275
• Pullman Car Co.: Post-armistice production of railway artillery matériel by, 179
• Purchase Claims Board, 247
• Purchase, Director of, 133, 235, 246–248, 252–253
• Purchase, Storage, and Traffic, Division of:
• Industrial demobilization controlled by, 134–135
• Purchasing functions of, 219, 234–235
• War contracts controlled by, 121
• Quartermaster Department, 50, 234–235
• Quartermaster Supplies:
• Demobilization of industry producing, 246–247
• Purchases of, in Europe, 235–236
• Sales of:
• To French Government, 238–240
• To other purchasers, 240–243
• Storage of, 251–252
• Termination of European contracts for, 237
• Value of A. E. F. surplus of, 243
• Racine trinitrotoluol Plant, 142
• Railroad Administration, United States: Cut rates to discharged soldiers granted by, 51–52
• Railroad Claim, French, 217
• Railway Passenger Equipment, Army, 57–58
• Raritan Arsenal, 176
• Raw Materials Division, 248
• Ray, John H., Jr.: On Cuthell Board, 294
• Real Estate Service, 267–268
• Recording & Computing Machines Co.: Optical instruments produced by, 192
• Recuperators, 172
• Reeves, Col. Ira L.: President of Beaune University, 93
• Remount Service, 244–246, 253–255
• Reo Motor Co.: Tractors produced by, 194
• Ritchey, Dr. G. W.: Optical workers trained by, 191
• Roads, Bureau of Public: Supplies furnished to, 217, 252, 282
• Roberts, George J.: Chief of New York ordnance district, 149
• Robinson, Fred J.: Chief of Detroit ordnance district, 149
• Rochester Gun Plant, 167, 170–171
• Rock Island Arsenal:
• Artillery stored at, 176
• Machinery concentrated at, 172, 174–175, 197
• Post-armistice production:
• Recuperators, 173
• 36-ton tanks, 195
• Roosevelt, Theodore: Attitude of, toward burial of soldiers in France, 84
• Ross, Private Harold W.: As editor of Stars and Stripes, 96
• Roumania: Supplies bought by, 242
• Russell, E. A.: Chief of Chicago ordnance district, 149
• Russell, Fort D. A.: Artillery stored at, 176
• Sales Branch, 269, 271–275
• Sales, Director of, 269–270, 276
• Salvage, 24, 243–244
• Savanna Proving Ground, 176
• School System of A. E. F., 92–93
• Scovil, Samuel:
• Chief of Cleveland ordnance district, 149
• Selective Service Men, Entrainment of, 1, 47–48
• Senter Tetryl Plant, 182
• Seventy-seventh Division, 59, 67
• Sheffield Nitrogen Plant, 183–184, 185
• Shell:
• Demobilization of Industry producing, 185–187
• Disposal of A. E. F. stocks of, 188–190
• Shell, Gas, 222–223
• Shelton, Charles B.: On Cuthell Board, 294
• Sights and Fire-control Instruments, 190–193
• Signal Corps, 227–229
• Singer Manufacturing Co.: Post-armistice production of recuperators by, 172, 173
• Singleton, Marvin E.: Chief of St. Louis ordnance district, 150
• Small Arms: Demobilization of industry producing, 195–197
• Small-arms Ammunition, 197–198
• Smith, Dan: Reëmployment poster painted by, 109
• Smith, Sergeant John W. Rixey: On Stars and Stripes, 96
• Smiths: Number of, in Army, 70
• Smoke, Toxic, 223–226
• Soldier Dead: Place of burial of remains of, 83–84, 91
• Spencer Lens Co.: Optical glass made by, 192
• Springfield Armory: Machinery stored at, 197
• Spruce Production Corp., 143, 281
• Standard B Trucks, 231
• Standard Contract Provisions, 122–124
• Standards, Bureau of: Optical glass manufacture by, 192, 193–194
• Stars and Stripes, 9–10, 94–97
• Steel, 277
• Steever, Miller D.: Work of, on Cuthell Board, 291, 292–293
• Stettinius, Edward R.: Activities of, in settling foreign industrial claims, 297, 298, 305–306
• Stewart, Col. G. H.: On Ordnance Claims Board, 147
• St. Nazaire: As port of embarkation for A. E. F., 11, 12, 16, 25, 28
• Storage, Director of, 251
• Storage Service, 250–252
• Stuart, Camp, 55
• Sulphur, 274
• Surplus Army Supplies, 270–271
• Surplus Property Division, 285–286
• Symington-Anderson Co.:
• Chicago shell factory of, retained as stand-by plant, 187
• Rochester Gun Plant built by, 170
• Tank Claim, British, 301
• Tanks, 195
• Tardieu, M. André: In negotiations leading to bulk purchase of A. E. F. stocks, 311
• Thayer, Harry B.: On Aircraft Board, 204
• Theatrical Performances, Soldiers’, 94
• Thirty-third Division, 59
• Tires, Automobile, 286
• Toluol Plants, 182–183
• Training Camps:
• Demobilization of troops in, 48–50
• Use of, as debarkation camps, 55
• Transportation Service:
• Air service squadrons in England repatriated by, 38
• Cargo transports redelivered by, 43–45
• Conversion of cargo transports by, 34–35
• Creation of, 57
• First Division transported by, 59–60
• German passenger vessels secured by, 36
• Military passengers carried by, after armistice, 59
• Morale of, 32–33, 38–39
• News bureau of, 55
• Personnel adjutants of, 41
• Port facilities disposed of by, 45–46
• Pre-armistice stoppage of embarkation by, 37
• Reserve of troopships created by, 45
• Russian and Siberian expeditionary troops repatriated by, 46 (footnote)
• Sick and wounded transported by, 58–59
• Troopships diverted by, 54
• Troopships operated by, 33
• Transports, 43 See also Cargo Transports and Troopships
• Travel Allowance, 51
• Treasury, Comptroller of: Decision of, invalidating informal contracts, 127
• Trinitrotoluol Plants, 183
• Troop-movement Section, 47–48
• Troopships, 31, 34, 36–37, 45
• Trucks, Motor, 199, 286
• Tuberculosis, 102
• Tullytown Bag-loading Plant, 188
• Tuscania, S. S.: Identification of effects of soldiers lost in sinking of, 82–83
• Twenty-eighth Division, 59
• Twenty-seventh Division, 59
• United States Aëronautical Engine Plant, 207
• Universities, Foreign: A. E. F. soldiers in, 93–94
• Upton, Camp, 55, 56
• Vessel owners: Demand of, for redelivery of chartered tonnage, 33–34
• Veterans:
• Employment campaign for, 104–111
• Generosity of Government to, 104
• Victory Parades, 59
• Vocational Education, Federal Board for, 101, 102–104
• Wah Chang Trading Corp.: Ordnance claim of, 158
• Wallgren, Private A. B.: On Stars and Stripes, 96
• Walnut Timber, 156–157
• War Camp Community Service: Reëmployment campaign of, 109
• War Contracts:
• Extent of, 112–113, 128–129
• Standardization of, 122–124
• Termination and liquidation of, 129–132, 138
• See also Cost-plus Contracts
• War Credits Board, 119–120 (footnote)
• War Department:
• Contract liquidation system of, 135–136, 138
• Contractors paid in advance by, 137–138, 141
• Contractual obligations of, 112–113, 128–129
• Cost of war to, 315–318
• Effect of 1917 organization of, upon contracts, 116–117
• Expansion of plant of, 256–257
• Policies of:
• In burying soldier dead, 83–84
• In discharging troops, 49–51, 52–53, 105–106
• Real Estate Service of, 266–267
• Reëmployment campaign of, 104–105
• Reorganization of, in 1918, 121
• War contracting powers of, 114
• War Department Claims Board:
• Castor bean case settled by, 208–210
• Creation and personnel of, 135
• Growth of, 141
• Informal contracts settled by, 140
• Record of, 143–144
• War Industries Board:
• Australasian wool purchased by, 248
• Contracts made by, 141
• Function of, 248
• Termination of war industry aided by, 131, 132
• War Industry:
• Extent of, 2–4
• Liquidation of, 132, 133–137
• Warner & Swasey: Panoramic sights produced by, 191
• War Risk Insurance, Bureau of:
• Amalgamation of, with other veterans’ bureaus, 103–104
• Disability compensation paid by, 63
• Function of, 101
• War, Secretary of:
• Order of, as to post-armistice production, 131
• Powers under Dent Act delegated by, 140
• War Department Claims Board created by, 135
• Watertown Arsenal:
• Expansion of, 168, 169–170, 174, 180
• Machinery concentrated at, 178, 179, 180
• Watervliet Arsenal:
• Expansion of, 168–170, 174
• Machinery concentrated at, 180
• Watson, Major Mark: On Stars and Stripes, 96
• Weems, F. C.: On Cuthell Board, 291
• West Indian Laborers, 257
• Where Do We Go from Here?: Booklet used in reëmployment campaign, 108–109
• White & Co., J. G.: Settlement of French contract with, 295
• Willys-Overland, Inc.: 75-mm. gun carriages produced by, 173
• Wilson, Woodrow, President of the United States: And Italian delegates to Peace Conference, 290
• Winterich, Corporal John T.: On Stars and Stripes, 95
• Woods, Col. Arthur: Reëmployment campaign conducted by, 107
• Wool Administrator, 248
• Wool Pool, Liquidation of, 248–250
• Woollcott, Sergeant Alexander: On Stars and Stripes, 96
• World War: Costs and benefits of, 315–321
• Wounded Soldiers:
• Payment of, 65–66
• Transportation of, 58–59
• Wright-Martin Aircraft Corp.: Engine plant of, retained, 207
• Young Men’s Christian Association: Schools of, in A. E. F., 93
• Zinc, 277
• Zone Finance Officer at Washington: Bonus paid by, 69