Milford News | 1928-09-07 | Page 9 | How S. O. S. Helped to Win the World War

How S. O. S. Helped to Win the World War The biggest business corporation of all time was the Service of Supplies the S. 0. S. behind the American expeditionary forces, In France, 1917-15. 1917-15. The S. 0. S. built more than 1,000 miles of railroad In France; brought over 1,490 locomotives and 1S.543 railroad rail-road cars; brought 135,000 miles of telegraph and telephone wire, which was hung on 2,000 miles of poles; put up innumerable buildings. Including a refrigerator plant for 0,500 tons of meat daily ; built 10,000 portable barracks, bar-racks, and two hospital cities, each with 4,000 beds. Tire bakeries that we built turned out 800,000 pounds of bread daily. As to the personnel of this huge business. It varied from experts In repairing field glasses, to that indisensabie genius with the acetylene torch mending mend-ing locomotives. Frederick Palmer In Liberty Magazine.