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Victory Liberty Loan helmets awarded as prizes and auctioned
The item notes eighty five thousand German helmets captured by allied troops to be prizes in the Victory Liberty Loan campaign with top sellers in counties and cities. A Treasury step photo shows Frank R. Wilson and Lewis B. Franklin with details of a helmet market panic caused by Wilson buying the entire 86 000 allotment for $1 and mentions German production costs and a Paris entry plan.
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Treasury
Washington
Frank R. Wilson
Lewis B. Franklin
War Loan Organization
Wilson
War Department
Paris