War Industries Board fights profiteering and fixes prices
The article outlines the War Industries Board price fixing system under Baruch. It explains government and civil market controls on copper and other staples, the role of executive orders, and examples like shoe standardization and glove length limits to curb profiteering during wartime.
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War Industries Board
New York World
The
Press Publishing Co
Army
Navy
National Council of Defence
Baruch
United States
War Industries. Board
Congress
War Industries
New York City
New York
B. M. Baruch
Washington, D. C
Boot and Shoe Section
Boot and Shoe Industry
Seibold
Food Administration
Epirus Aid Appeal Urges U S Recognition of Northern Epirus Union
The Pan Epirotic Union in America issues a telegram to President Wilson and world leaders claiming Italy robbed Northern Epirus of freedom. It recalls 1914 resistance, Corfu protocol recognition, and alleges Italian forces ousted Greek troops and pushed Albanian control with plans for Chimarra. It accuses Italy of blocking local muster for two divisions to aid the Allies in Macedonia.
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New York
Northern
Epirus
Wilson
Clemenceau
Lloyd George
Venizelos
Pan-Epirotic Union
America
Greek Bureau of Information
United States
Worcester
Mass
Northern Epirus
Greece
Pan-Epirotic Union of America
Corfu
Italy
Chimarra
Albania
Macedonia
Tag Day for Signal Corps Draws Boston Notables
Miss Ivy Kendricks will lead tag day for the 101st Field Signal Corps in Greater Boston. More than 60 young women in white hats with yellow pompons will sell tags at Victory Cottage on Boston Common from 11 30 a m to 6 p m. Major General Clarence R Edwards, Governor McCall, Speaker Cox and others will attend with a dog exhibition and trained carrier pigeons scheduled to fly messages from 1 30 p m.
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101St Field Signal Corps
Boston
Victory Cottage
Boston Common
Clarence R. Edwards
No Man’s Land
Signal Corps
McCall Urges Steps to Fight Epidemics
Governor McCall sent a letter to Health Commissioner Dr Eugene R Kelley urging use of past epidemic lessons and quick contact with Boston health officials to devise methods to combat any threatened outbreak. He cited the danger from returning soldiers and urged early action.
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McCall
Eugene R. Kelley
Boston
United States Begins Trade With Siberia
Washington November 29 The war trade board announces the United States Russian bureau has started trade with Siberia. Three vessels have sailed from Pacific ports to Vladivostok carrying commodities deemed urgently needed by Russian officials.
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Washington
Siberia
War Trade Board
United States Bussian Bureau, Incorporated
McCormick
Pacific
Vladivostock
Cliftondale Woman Is Tiny and Also Busy
Jeanette L. Roberts of Cliftondale weighs 33 pounds and stands 4 feet 8 inches. A mother of five, her duties include housework for seven, renting two boarders, a war garden, hens, and active Red Cross work. She says she has never been sick.
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Idnters
Red Cross
Jeanette L. Roberts
Cliftondale
Methuen Woman Seeks Missing Husband After Two Years
Mrs. John F. Pilling of 73 Tenney Street Methuen seeks her husband a native of Rochester England who has not been heard from in two years She asks him to return after learning their son Jank C Pilling was killed in action from a distant source.
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Methuen
John F. Pilling
Tenney Street
Rochester
Eng
Prince Antoine of Bourbon Orleans Dies in Hospital
Prince Antoine Gaston Phippe of Bourbon Orleans, great grand son of King Louis Philippe, died in a London military hospital from injuries after an airplane fall. Born 1881, he was a captain in the Royal Canadian Dragoons early in the war.
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London
Antoine Gaston Phippe
Bourbon-Orleans
Louis Phillippe
France
Prince Antoine
Gaston
d’Eu
Isabelle
Braganza
Royal Canadian Dragoons
Endurance Tested as Vienna Struggles with War Ruins
From Berne reports, after the armistice Vienna faced extreme hardship. Food and basic goods were scarce and costly, with meals described as slender and unpalatable yet expensive, clothing prices soared, and long lines for tiny portions became normal. A diplomat noted Austria could not continue, facing winter almost naked, with even worn clothing fetching high prices.
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Berne
Switzerland
Associated Press
Vienna
Austria
Eyewitness Account From Vienna Reports Odd Climax In War Time
An American diplomat stationed in Vienna describes the city’s astonishing endurance during wartime hardship. He recounts immense suffering yet notes that horse racing continues with crowds larger than ever, a striking contrast to the surrounding crisis.
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Vienna
Austria
Switzerland
Germans Fail to Blow Up Tay Bridge in Dundee
Details published by the Dundee Advertiser recount how a German submarine aimed to destroy the Tay bridge at Dundee during the war. A British airman saw the submarine, alarms triggered minesweepers and destroyers, a depth charge and a very heavy explosion followed. Oil and wreckage surfaced and divers found 13 dead German sailors. Two guns and much wreckage were salvaged and exhibited in Dundee.
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Dundee
Tay
Dundee Advertiser
Cable Honor to Edwards
Governor McCall received two highly commendatory cablegrams from France honoring Major-General Clarence R. Edwards former commander of the 26th Division U S A The messages from Charles Stevens and Commandant De Boistrouvray praise Edwards as a real soldier loved in New England and one of the best war workers the Yankee division joins in spirit
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McCall
France
Clarence R. Edwards
U.S. A
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Charles A. Stevens
Massachusetts
New England
Stevens
Brand Whitlock Reoccupies Brussels Legation
Brand Whitlock the American minister to Belgium formally notified the State Department of his reoccupation of the Brussels legation. He relieves the Spanish minister who had cared for American interests during the German occupation.
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Brand Whitlock
Brussels
Washington
Belgium
State Department
Allied officials to travel to Berlin for armistice talks
Amsterdam dispatch says representatives from Britain France and the United States will reach Berlin soon to discuss the armistice question the Cologne Gazette correspondent reports from Berlin as of November 29.
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Berlin
Amsterdam
Great Britain
France
United States
Cologne Gazette
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