Daniel Willard, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, met with other leaders of his industry who agreed that the Interstate Commerce Commission had to approve higher freight rates and the unions had to accept wage cuts if the railroads were to stay solvent.
In November 1917, he was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to be chairman of the War Industries Board, charged with devising and expediting means of producing the government's industrial requirements for effective warfare.
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As a document of company disclosure, the book made a list of the current directors which at that time included Charles Francis Adams III, Winthrop W. Aldrich, Lewis H. Brown, John W. Davis, W. Cameron Forbes, Myron C. Taylor, and Daniel Willard.