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