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Title: The American Red Cross in the great war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Davison, Henry Pomeroy, 1867-1922
Subjects: American National Red Cross World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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sting supply to demand,the Bureau of Stores was formed. The value of Chaptereffort, always great, was multiplied many fold. It wasestimated most conservatively at anywhere from sixty toa hundred milUon dollars. The principal business of the Bureau of Stores was inter-mediary. It was more a Bureau of Records, limited records,but of large importance. It had a set of books, — one foreach Division, — which was turned in from the Divisionmonthly and in which were set down the demands formaterial for articles which the Bureau of Production hadallotted for manufacture; against the totals of these re-quirements the Biireau of Stores inscribed its stock on hand,and thus was enabled to know from month to month thestate of its suppUes by Chapters, which, when made up intofinished articles, were shipped to the Division Warehouses,where they awaited demand. It was a very simple cog,but it kept the whole system of Chapter production pro-tected against lack of materials; and, in conjunction with
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SUPPLIES AND TRANSPORTATION 117 the Production Bureau, was of use in assuring a supply offinished goods on hand. I said in the beginning that itrequired piu-ely mechanical processes to transmute senti-ment into relief. This is an intensified illustration. When the market goods were bought and the Chaptergoods were made the thing was to get them to the peoplewho needed them. The nationalization of the Red Crosshas been a great aid in securing for it every possible advan-tage in ocean tonnage. The AlUed Governments had beencalled upon to give space for Red Cross supplies to France,Italy, England, Russia (Kola, Archangel, and Vladivostok),Serbia, Greece, Switzerland (for American prisoners, Ser-bian prisoners, and the Swiss Commission), Palestine, Den-mark (for American prisoners). Virgin Islands, Madeira,Guatemala, Haiti, and Madagascar. In negotiating forspace the Bureau of Transportation perfected arrangementsfor shipment in steamers controlled by the French HighCommission, the United

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