Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII : $b The Great Results of the War
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Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII : $b The Great Results of the War
League of Nations; Treaty of Versailles (1919 June 28); World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918 -- Economic aspects; World War, 1914-1918 -- Finance
W. A. Starrett, constructing architect of New York, to whom in
great measure is due the credit for the building of the
cantonments in an incredibly short space of time.
Samuel Vauclain, President of the Baldwin Locomotive Works,
whose contribution in the matter of Army and Navy artillery was
monumental.
Theodore Vail, President of the American Telephone & Telegraph
Company, who brought the wire communication men of the country
to a common center in the national interest.
Charles Clifton, President of the National Automobile Chamber
of Commerce.
Gen. George H. Harries, the famous electric railway operator.
Samuel Insull, President of the Commonwealth Edison Co., of
Chicago.
Charles Eisenman, who, as active head of the Council's
Committee on Supplies, procured for the Government $800,000,000
of supplies in 200 days at an overhead cost of but $20,000,
involving the handling of 45,000 contracts, and who justly
received the Distinguished Service Medal.
A. F. Bemis, President of the National Association of Cotton
Manufacturers.
John P. Woods, the eminent woolen manufacturer.
J. F. McElwain, of the McElwain Shoe Company.
Lincoln Cromwell, of Wm. Iselin & Co., New York.
Arthur V. Davis, President of the Aluminum Co. of America.
Thomas F. Manville, President of H. W. Johns-Manville Co.
Charles F. Brooker, President of the American Brass Company.
John E. Morron, President of the Atlas Portland Cement Company.
John D. Ryan, President of the Anaconda Copper Company.
R. L. Agassiz, President of the Calumet & Hecla Mining
Company.
W. A. Clark, President of the United Verde Copper Company.
Murry M. Guggenheim.
R. H. Downman, President of the National Lumber Manufacturers'
Association.
Ambrose Monell, President of the International Nickel Company.
Gary, Farrell, Burden, Dinkey, King, Grace, Schwab, Topping,
Dalton, and Clarke, the great steel executives.
Bedford, Davison, Doheney, Lufkin, Markham, Sinclair, Van Dyke,
Muir, James, and Guffy, in whose hands lay almost the entire
oil output of America.
Stuart Hotchkiss, President of the General Rubber Company.
F. J. Hagenbarth, President of the National Association of Wool
Growers.
The Presidents of the leading zinc companies.
Then when we come to Engineering and Education:
Dr. Henry E. Crampton, of Columbia University.
Charles A. Stone, of Stone and Webster.
The heads of the great engineering societies.
The presidents of Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and other famous
universities and colleges.
Among labor leaders such persons as:
Warren S. Stone, Grand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers.
James W. Sullivan, Matthew Woll and Frank Morrison, all high in
the American Federation of Labor.
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