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Title: "As you were,"
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: (Bangs, John Kendrick) 1888- ed (Bangs, John Kendrick), 1862-1922, ed
Subjects: United States. War dept. Purchase, storage and traffic division. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, The Knickerbocker press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Chief of Branch One planning to outdoBranch Two
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Veterans of Branch One in February, rgi9 Branch Number One 49 and confines himself to horse and possibly household brushesand street brooms. From the above it would seem that each individual kindof brush is a line unto itself. Of the toothbrushes used in thiscountry practically not more than 10% are manufacturedhere, while the balance is the product of Japan, France, Eng-land, Germany, and Austria. In view of the disturbed condi-tions in Europe the four last-mentioned sources of supply werecut off from the Army, leaving this market with its small out-put of the item, and Japan, to fill the great need that haddeveloped. The procurement of this merchandise was handi-capped at one time by an embargo on bristles coming into thiscountry, and by a further embargo on the export of bone toJapan, to whom this country looked for the bulk of its tooth-brushes. No shaving brushes containing horsehair, which is knownand proven to be a carrier of the much dreaded anthrax germ,were purchased. In the

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