Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1928-09-07 | Page 7 | How S.O.S. Helped to Win the World War

How S. O. S. Helped to Win ihe Vorld War The biggest business corporation of all time was the Service of Supplies the S. O. S. behind the American expeditionary forces, in France, 1017-1S. 1017-1S. The S. O. S. built more than 1,000 miles of railroad in France; brought over XA0G locomotives and 18,543 railroad rail-road cars; brought 135,000 miles of telegraph and telephone wire, which was hung en 2,f00 miles of poles; put up Innumerable buildings, Including a refrigerator plant for 6,500 tons of meat daily; built 1(5,000 portable barracks, bar-racks, and two hospital cities, each with 4.000 beds. The 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 Indisensable genius with the acetylene torch mending mend-ing locomotives Frederick rainier in Liberty Magazine.