War Program Aims to Cut Furniture Waste for War Effort
A government plan to standardize furniture sizes reduce glass use and shrink packing to save fuel and shipping space. A national conference in Buffalo on September 25 will set final conservation rules for U.S. furniture manufacturers and elect a wartime committee to liaise with government boards.
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Vc Wilistiv Mas
United States
Buffalo
Chamber of Commerce of the
Conservaton Division
Furniture Association
Government Industries Board
Great Britain hosts vast American Red Cross effort
The American Red Cross operates over twenty departments in Great Britain with thousands of American women residents and English partners aiding in hospitals, care committees, and field support. Key leaders include Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Deputy Commissioner in Britain, coordinating volunteers across mos t major cities and camps to visit wounded troops and supply comforts.
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Red Cross
Great Britain
American Red Cross
Atlantic
Whitelaw Reid
John Astor
Curtis Brown
Henry Chapin
Spender Clay
Countess of Granard
Frederick Guest
Viscountess Harcourt
Herbert
Irwin Laughlin
Mossley Hill Hospital
Liverpool
Ade J. Wise
University of Michigan
Sarisbury Court
Southampton
Ambulance Corps Built for War Fronts and Training Camps
Washington reports on the American army ambulance service created for World War I. About 9,000 to 10,000 men serve in 80 sections with 12 ambulances each behind French, English, Belgian lines and Italian trenches. Camp Crane at Allentown trains recruits from major universities. the program blends private ambulance units with official army support and will wind down after peace.
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Allentown
Beng
United States
Crane
Alentown
University of Washington
University of California
Leland Stanford
University of Maine
Harvard
University of Chicago
Hamline
University of Texas
United States Army
Elbert FE
Verdun
Prince’ Pally
Fort Oglethorpe
Fort Riley
Kansas
Universites
Europe
Colonel Persons
Victor Emmanuel
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Italy
Service
City Transfer Co
Tures
Bank of Commerce
Tion
Quarterly
the Welcome Bank
O. E. Kearns, Pres
A. M. Rankin
J. H. Adams
GA. Pollock
H. A. Millis
Silks
Crepe de Chine
Mussal In
Taffetas
England
London
Associated Press
The
Citizens Real Estate and Insurance Co
Mann Drng Co
Washington
Switzerland
Roned Srvic
Marshall Joffre
Broadway
Billie Burke
Billy Burke
Charlie Chaplin
Shorty Hamilton
Denny
Ireland
Eries and
Peoples House Fur
Nishing Company
N. C
Telephone
Smyrna
Isals
Greensboro
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