What It Means to Feed, Shoe and Clothe the Armies 



of the Allies 



Our first equipment order was for four million 

 two hundred thousand pairs of shoes. If a 

 pair could be made that number of times the 

 size of the ordinary pair, it could "press 

 under foot " all Germany and Austria 



Up to April of this year, the Allies had used up 

 six hundred and thirty-three million yards of 

 cloth in the making of their shirts and uni- 

 forms. Such a strip could encircle the earth 

 fifteen times, covering about 375,000 mile-' 



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