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Show CANCEL CONTRACTS x AGGREGATING OVER BILLION DOLLARS TOURS', Nov. 2tl. Contracts aggregating $1,000,000,000 have been cancelled by the American expeditionary forces. In future fu-ture the American, British and French governments will pool their surplus stocks and will buy through a common purchasing purchas-ing agency. Forty thousand men engaged, in the American supply service will be sent to advanced areas as replacement troops. The supply department will continue its routine work. Forty-three construction projects have been cancelled. Orders for 25)0 locomotives, locomo-tives, fit, 000 railroad cars and hundreds of cranes, tugs, barges and derricks also have been recalled. The transport pro- gram has been reduced materially, while the ordnance department has been cut down by two-thirds. The reduction in the air service has not as yet been announced. |