War Conditions to Last Long After Fighting Ceases
A New York Journal of Commerce sentiment from Washington argues war conditions will persist long after fighting ends. Factors include growing troop returns, food and tax burdens, and government controls. The piece warns reformers may push paternalism and extended government activity well beyond the war’s end. William Gillette appears in a final humorous aside about a comb request in a drug store.
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New York
Ways and Means Committee
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War Industries Board adopts farm implement limits
The Conservation Division of the War Industries Board enacts a broad elimination of farm equipment types for the war period. About 3,000 surplus plows and tillage implements are dropped, with only a fraction of varieties kept for planting, drilling, sowing, and fertilization tasks. Effective November 1, 1918, declines in production are paired with stock adjustments, and several components are standardized or discontinued as part of the wartime program.
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