Lauck
(WILLIAM) JETT, an American economist, born at Keyser, W.
Va., in 1879. He graduated from Washington University in 1903. He served as assistant professor of economics and political science at Washington and Lee University from 1905 to 1908. From 1907 to 1910 he was in charge of industrial investigation of the United States Immigration Commission. In the following year he was chief examiner of the Tariff Board. He served as expert and consulting statistician on many important commissions concerned with the investigation of railroad rates and kindred subjects. From 1917 he was statistician of the United States Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment Board. In 1920 he published several reports relating chiefly to the alleged profiteering of large corporations.