Another thing to keep in mind, in addition to the shorter duration of US involvement in WWI, is the fact that in WWI, the US did not face the threat of actual attack. It was 10 years before Charles Lindbergh proved the Atlantic Ocean could be crossed by an airplane, and ships weren't really a long-range threat.
WWII proved, via the attack on Pearl Harbor, that trans-oceanic attacks were possible, and German U-boats (submarines) were encountered off the US east coast. Also, the Germans were developing the V-2 rocket that could reach North America. That, and the longer duration of the war, necessitated the paper drives and everything else that served to curtail wartime card production.
Steve
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1909 Obak Howard (Los Angeles) (no frame on back)
1910 E90-2 Gibson, Hyatt, Maddox
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