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Show Highlights of USO Fiye-Year Record I At the height of activities 700 USO shows were' given dally overseas and In the United States, by mere than 4,900 en-tcrtniners. en-tcrtniners. June, 1943, was the numerical peak of volunteers 7.19,000 of them working; that month. They worked a total of 165 million hours In the five years. American puhllo has given 200 million dollars to service 14 million men and women in armed forces. A brief summary of USO's accomplishments ac-complishments during its first five years of service to men and women In uniform all over the world Include In-clude the following highlights: At peak, USO was serving one million men a day. During the five years (February (Febru-ary 4, 1941 to February 4, 1945) total of 1,100,000,000 served. At peak, there were 30,03! USO operations. Teak expenditures were $5,-800,000 $5,-800,000 a mouth. 1'cak overseas units totalled 178. Overseas cluh attendance (1942 to 1945) was 104,819,151. During the half-decade, mobile mo-bile services of all sorts totalled SO million. Nineteen and one-half million Individual services performed by 131 USO Travelers Aid units. |