Word: scherwin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What food do soldiers like, what do they eat because they have to? To find the answer to this and many another delicate dietetic question, the Army detailed Master Sergeant Horace Scherwin and 50 other enlisted men. In a twelve-month they examined meals served to 2,474,362 men in 500 Army mess halls, measured the contents of countless garbage cans, clocked eating habits. By last week they were able to report that the U.S. soldier...
...Results. Scherwin's survey, made on orders from Major General Edmund B. Gregory, Quartermaster General, recommended that cooks cease preparing meals to feed the number of men at the morning roll call. He found absenteeism at dinner and supper often ran as high as 20%. Reasons: mild illness, eating at post exchanges, anxiety to get away early on leave. By allowing for absentees, the Army hopes to cut $119,000,000 from its annual food bill, which in 1943 will be about $1,250,000,000. Other savings may be made by eliminating wastage that Scherwin uncovered...
| 1 |