Trading-with-the-Enemy Act

Dow Chemical Company embarked on the manufacture of synthetic indigo in 1916. In October 1917, not long after the US entered World War I, Congress passed the Trading-with-the-Enemy Act, and the Office of Alien Property was established. The act enabled the Federal Trade Commission to issue licenses for the use of German patents, particularly dyestuffs and pharmaceutical products based on coal-tar intermediates. The US was now a major player in the business of making anilines and their products. 

The United States entered the war in April 1917, and in October Congress passed the Trading with the Enemy Act, under which authority the office of the Alien Property Custodian was established. The APC was depu-... 

Haynes (ref. 7), 220 District Court of the United States for the District of Delaware, USA v. The Chemical Foundation, Inc., record of final hearing. No. 502 in Equity (1923), 3,1390 Trading with the enemy act approved October 6,1917 (New York, 1917), Record Group 131, Records of the Office of Alien Property, entry 15, box 1, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland. 

The Trading with the Enemy Act The Federal Trade Commission and the Salvarsan Patents Alien Property Custodian... 

II, Americans again turned to the Trading with the Enemy Act... 

Not included in the 265 million were additional assets related to merchant ships and a radio station. McHugh, Settlement of War Claims Act of 1928, 195 The Trading with the Enemy Act, (1926) 352 (signed by E.M.B.). Jerald A. Combs discusses the relatively quick change in the Americans attitude toward the war and their analyses of the war s causes. His focus is on historians and public... 

Products Company, 244 Treaty of Versailles, 179, 183. See also Garvan, Francis P. Palmer, A. Mitchell Trading with the Enemy Act USA v. The Chemical Foundation, Inc. 

Section 10(f) lawsuits. See Trading with the Enemy Act Section 10(f) lawsuits... 

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