Show 1 I ARMY FOOD yr i w z zY Y s r i 1 p i y sE 3 4 r 2 1 u t 4 i s e 4 r 3 l u Q Purchasing through a system which ascertains the availability of an item its quality price and distance distance dis dis- tance fance to be transported e 2 enables n nab a b l I e s quartermaster market center system to buy the best possible food with which to feed t the h e ea iI a r m e d personnel of its various military forces In Inthe Inthe Inthe the photo at t right Capt John Knowles left and an army irmy veterinarian inspect a J pork carcass at a meat processing company plant in Madison Wis 4 y 7 Q Purchasing fresh food for t the h e nations nation's armed forces is big business a a 31 million dollar a a- a month business and it is accomplished by the army quartermaster m mar market a r k e t center system on a nationwide nationwide nationwide nation nation- wide basis using h high i g h- h h speed modern tion The market center supplies virtually all the perishable subsistence re required required required re- re by the army navy and air force Shown above Mr Roberts fruit and vegetable vegetable vegetable marketing specialist special special- for the San Francisco and Captain John Miller inspect lettuce in a afield afield afield field near Salinas Calif At left marketing specialists special special- in the teletype room at Chicago headquarters are in contact with various market centers throughout the U. U S. S t 3 j F ry I i kt t Y t V 4 rR Matthew T T. Barr Barrow Bar- Bar r row o a w left of Madison Maine inspecting f fish ish i s h prior to purchase at the Boston fish market photo at left for later distribution distribution distribution tion to the armed forces by bythe bythe bythe the quartermaster market center In picture below quartermaster buyer Captain Captain Captain Cap Cap- tain Knowles inspects the sacking and weighing of potatoes at a shed in Parris Parris Parris Par- Par ris Calif The Q M M C buys the finest food ever served to any military personnel personnel personnel per per- at a yearly saving of millions of dollars g r. r I U i i 4 t tr r if v L N 0 r t M Mi i I 1 i iq s a q 1 to s y Y 1111 FY I yys D I r. 1 0 J J r. r 1 x t i ii |