Word: rations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the War Department appropriation bill of $357,000,000, providing for a standing army of 118,750 men, increasing the daily per capita food ration from 35c to 40c (TIME, Jan. 24), allowing $20,000,000 to continue the five-year program of the Air Corps. (Bill went to the Senate...
Last week Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, told the House Military Affairs Committee that the Army food rations were lower than those of convicts in Federal prisons. The soldier gets only one good meal a day, he said. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis added that President Coolidge and the Budget Bureau were responsible for the Army's meagre diet. Hearing these words and many others, the House Military Affairs Committee set about to expand the War Department appropriation bill. It increased the daily food ration five cents per day (a total recommendation...
...Monday, December 13 at 4 o'clock, M. Champion will speak of Anatole France. This lecture, also in French, will give an intimate personal portrait a the writer who is perhaps the best known literary series of his ration today. He was an intimate friend of M. Champion...
...beef, pork and veal, seasoned and stuffed tightly into the intestinal tubing of a pig. He showed them how they might wind this provender about their necks or waists to carry it easily; how they might tie and cut it in short lengths to share with their fellows or ration themselves. The invention met with instant and universal approval...
Arrived at Assen the troops rushed for their foamy "marching draught." All too soon this cooling ration disappeared. Unappeased, the men called for more beer. Their officers, frugal, meticulous, refused to sanction further beerbibbing...