Identifier: warfacttestsforg00alle (find matches)
Title: War fact tests for graduation & promotion ..
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Allen, William H. (WIlliam Harvey), 1874-1963
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y., World book co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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inequipping an army of over one million men, buildingships, manufacturing munitions, making airships,paying for transportation, protecting health, etc.Typical first year results follow in nearest hundreds: (1) Over 500,000 men have been sent to France. (2) The number of army officers increased from 9,500 to123,800. (3) The number of enlisted men increased from 202,500to 1,528,900. (4) The number of naval officers, all branches, increasedfrom 4,800 to 21,000. (5) The number of enlisted men in the navy, all branches,increased from 102,500 to 332,100. (6) General Pershings first contingent of troops landedin France eighty-eight days after the declaration ofwar. (7) Within two weeks of April 6, 1917, contracts had beenlet for supplying an army of 1,000,000 men with ma-terials totaling 8,700,000 items. (8) Within three weeks after the enactment of the Selec-tive Draft law our entire male population within draftage—about 10,000,000 men—registered before some4,000 boards. (40) $7.00 ^^ I
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(c) By permission of Philadelphia North American A 3,000 mile long range gun (41) Home Country War Fact No, 3 (cont.) (9) In the ordnance department, which supplies ammu-nition and weapons, the total number of officers andemployees jumped from 259 to 13,900; the war ord-nance expenditure jumped from about $13,000,000 ayear to that much a day! (10) For naval ordnance the annual peace time expendi-ture of $30,000,000, increased to $600,000,000. (11) Already motor trucks are being manufactured at therate of 1,150 per month. (12) $640,000,000 was voted for aircraft construction andtraining of aviators. (13) Money for building a thousand war ships was voted. (14) 109 interned German ships, whose crews thoughtthey had damaged them beyond repair, have all beenrepaired and are in service,—the larger ones as trans-ports, and others as supply vessels. (15) $100,000,000 has been spent in building large docksand training men for the navy. (16) Our wireless service is now the most extensive in t

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