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Show Highlights of USO Fire-Year Record At the height of activities 700 USO shows were given daily overseas and in the Unitea States, by mere than 4,900 entertainers. en-tertainers. June, 1943, was the numerical peak of volunteers 739,000 of them working that month. They worked a total of 16S million hours in the five years. American publlo 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 m( n and women In uniform all over the world include in-clude the following highlights: At peak, VsO 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 30,035 USO operations. Peak expenditures were $5,-800,000 $5,-800,000 a month. Peak overseas units totalled 178. Overseas club attendance (1942 to 1945) was 104,819,151. During the half-decade, mobile mo-bile services of all sorts totalled 50 million. Nineteen and one-half million individual services performed by 131 USO-Travelers Aid units. |