The transport of food supplies from the U. S. A. to Europe
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The transport of food supplies from the U. S. A. to Europe
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You Cannot Waste Your Loaf and Have It Too
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Twenty million tons of food for her starving people—thisis the
promise of the United States to Europe. That's a lot of food.
If it were loaded into freight-cars, the cars would make up a
train reaching from New York city to Spokane, Washington:
and 1,594 locomotives of the huge triplex type, capable of
pulling 251 fifty-ton cars, would be needed to haul it.
To transport this huge load to Europe, 240,000 tons of shipping
will be kept busy for a year. The George Washington, which
carried President Wilson to France, has a tonnage of 27,000; it
would require a vessel nine times her size to take all the
‘promised food over in one cargo.
Where will we get it all? The skyscraper loaf shown above
suggests one answer. Formerly about 600,000 barrels of flour
was wasted yearly in the United States in stale bread returned
by the dealers to the manufacturers. The war put a stop to
that. The saving, if put in one loaf, would cover a whole city
block, and the loaf's crust would be level with the roof of a
ten-story building.
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eng
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1919-06
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19
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 6, 1919
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