Report

By: Bernard Baruch

Date: 1921

Source: American Industry in the War: A Report of the War Industries Board. Washington, D.C.: Goverment Printing Office, 1921, 61, 63–67, 69, 98–100. Reprinted in Shannon, David A., ed. Progressivism and Postwar Disillusionment: 1898–1928. New York: McGraw Hill, 1966.

About the Author: Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) was born in Camden, South Carolina. At age eleven, he and his family moved to New York City, where he attended college and took a job in a Wall Street brokerage firm. Baruch's sharp financial judgment quickly made him a wealthy man. Though Baruch never abandoned his ties to the corporate world, he occasionally operated in the public sphere, supporting Woodrow Wilson's presidential campaign and advising the administration in the preparedness drive during World War I (1914–1918). Baruch served as an economic...