The U.S. War Industries Board (WIB) was decommissioned at the conclusion of World War I on January 1, 1919.
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This group assisted the U.S. War Industries Board in the procurement of fabricated structural steel, and attempted to coordinate the efforts of the steel industry during the World War I effort.
He served as a consultant for the location and valuation of ore deposits for several mining companies and served as mineral adviser to the U.S. Shipping Board and the War Industries Board during World War I.
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.
Later at the War Industries Board’s Price Section, he studied the effect of price shifts on the output of the petroleum and rubber industries.
War Industries Board, a former government agency created to increase efficiency of the United States during World War I
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