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Show o ( FIGHTING EFFICIENCY. Of all enterprises on earth war-making is the most ' costly. It takes 5971 barrels of flour to feed one million : soldiers a single day. They will consume, in addition, 150,000 pounds of bacon, ten car-loads of potatoes, ten carloads car-loads of beef, and something less than a carload of coffee. This ration, multiplied by thirty, suggests the mountain ' of food required to keep a camp alive one month'. Food distribution has been simplified materially by the auto- ; mobile truck. One of these machines will haul as much food in one day as twelve mules and three wagons were required to haul in the Civil War days. More than 40,000 automobile trucks are to be provided for the United States army. Two or three times as much food as an army needs must be provided, as the emergency hazard in war is very great. A well-fed army brings in the ; victory. - M4MW |