Soldiers authorized to wear the Ranger Tab may wear the Ranger Tab metal replica. The full size version is approximately 1 5/32 inches (2.94 cm) in width. The dress miniature version is 13/16 inch (2.06 cm) in width.
War economy. A War economy is the set of contingencies undertaken by a modern state to mobilize its economy for war production. Philippe Le Billon describes a war economy as a system of producing, mobilizing and allocating resources to sustain the violence..
war industries board. At the center of the effort to rationalize the economy was the war industries bond. (WIB) an agency created in July 1917 to coordinate government purchase of military supplies. Casually organized at first, it stumbled badly until March 1918 when wilson restructered it and placed it under the control of the wall street financier Bernard Buruch .