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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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aterial procured, it wasnecessary to increase this force materially, and on November11, 1918, the personnel consisted of sixty-one people. The total number of requisitions handled by the Branchwas 1442, many of which called for the greatest ability obtain-able, and to get results the difficulties of this Branch, as inothers, have been great; and among the items produced ingreat quantities are items that have been originated anddesigned during the period of the war to fill a newly foundwant. Among some of the principal items procured by thisBranch and the circumstances concerned with the procurementthereof, are the following: Marmites In May, 1918, a cable requisition was received from theA. E. F. for 104,000 marmites, which were described as foodcontainers of five-gallon capacity provided with insulatedwalls, somewhat similar to a fireless cooker. These marmiteswere used in sending hot food to the men in front-line trenchesor in positions where fires for cooking could not be built. 66
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Major W. J. Peck

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