History of the United States II / Unit 8 USH2 1070 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The War Industries Board
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The idea
The War Industries Board, under the financier Bernard Baruch, directed the flow of raw materials and controlled government contracts for war production.
In practice
Factories supplied and scheduled according to federal priorities.
Where people slip
Federal direction of industry on this scale was new, and the New Deal of unit eleven would reach back to it as a precedent.
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