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Show During the first year of war tlie army paid $60,000,000 for horse-drawn horse-drawn vehicles and harness; more than 50,000,000 for horses, mulea, and harness. Expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, Tor fuel and forage are estimated at more than $500,000,000. ' ' To February 20, the Director General Gen-eral of Military Railways had placed orders for railway supplies valued at $ 142,000,000 and with an aggregate weight of 75"4,000 long tons; the General Engineer Depot, to February Febru-ary 1, issued 9,500 orders for material mate-rial valued at $202,000,000. Among the purchases of the Quartermaster's Quar-termaster's Department are 61,000,-000 61,000,-000 pounds of prunes and dried beans; 27S.000.000 cans of tomatoes, condensed milk, and baked beans; 40,000,000 yards of mosquito bar; 75,000,000 yards of olive drab; 20,-000,000 20,-000,000 woolen blankets; 31,000,000 pairs of woolen'drawers; 50,000,000 pairs of heavy stockings; 11,000,000 wool coals. The Ordnance program includes the purchase of 23,000,000 hand grenades, 725,000 automatic pistols,' 250,000 revolvers, 23,000,000 projectiles for heavy artillery, 4 27,-246,000 27,-246,000 pounds of explosives, 240,-000 240,-000 machine guns,c and 2,484,000 rifles; Congress has authorized $2,034,-000,000, $2,034,-000,000, of which sum $1,135, 000,-000 000,-000 has been appropriated, for the. United States Shipping Board and I Emergency Fleet Corporation; on March 1, $353,247,955.37' of this sum had been expended. The Emergency Emer-gency Fleet Corporation had requisitioned requisi-tioned March 1, 4 25 vecsels and contracted con-tracted for 720 tteel vessels, making a "total" of 1,145 steel, ships, of an aggregate dead-weight tonnage of S, 164, 503 tons; it had let contracts for 4 90 wcoden vessels, aggregating approximately 1,715,000 dead-weight tons; it had repaired and put in operation op-eration 7SS.O00 dead-weight tonnage seized from Germany and Austria. 6u March 5 the building program of the Emergency Fleet Corporation was being carried on In 15.1 plants. AMEIUCA IX THE WOKLD WAIl ' ;, , .The annual pay ui the army no-v exceeds $500,J00,')u:'. production of 10, wO n-w aul(mo-bile1 aul(mo-bile1 trucks .is in progress for the army. ' The navy ration in 1917 cost , $0.43S, as against .'$0.37684 in 1916. Our 14-inch guns weigh nearly 95 tons and are over 5 S feet long, cost- . Ing $11S,000. 7 ' ' 7 Our 35,000-ton cruiser, capable of 35 knots, will be thef astest in the world. " About 60,000 officers and men r.re engaged in coast patroL work of the navy. 'American troops permanently . took i over a part of th.e firing line as an American sector in January, 19 IS. The navy now has in its possession a stock of supplies sufficient for aver-!- age requirements for one year. More than 70,000 acres of land in this' couptry has been planted with : c:istorlean plants to produce oil for . ; aircraft. ; During it months the army hos ' . . pitals increased from -7 to.,63 in number num-ber and from 5, 000'to "58,400 beds; 3(r,000 more, beds. are being added. ' The disbursement and outstanding obligations of . the ' navy, during the ' first year of the war . are estimated at $1, SSI, 000,000. , The total naval appro; rlations, real and pending, ; are $3,333,171,665. "There" are now four times as many ' ves.els-, iu 'naval , service, as a year ago. .The estimated pay of officers ) and "men ''in' the navy' for the first i -vtar of war was $125,000,000. " ; The air personnel in the first year ! , ot war Increased fronl 65 officers and 'Jil20men 'to one - hundred times that' number. Eleven kinds, of schools have been Installed. Several hundred, submarine chasers, chas-ers, built since the war, have been delivered to the navy by "31. private concerns and 6 navy yards; many of these boats have crossed the At- lantie, some in severe weather. '. Through a card catalogue system 109,487 men have been transferred ; out of array divisions lnjo technical units to function according to individual indi-vidual educatonal, occupational, and i military qualifications. |
