Food
The war had hurt European
capacity of 5,200 tons. It was cooled
agriculture, so the U.S. Army
by ammonia circulating through
imported American food to its troops
35 miles of two-inch pipe. A nearby
in France. The engineers assured that
ice-making plant produced 500 tons
the food was well preserved en route.
of ice daily.
They used 100,000 cubic feet of
Closer to the front lines, at the
locally obtained cork to insulate a
refrigeration plant
Is-sur-TilleDepot,theengineers
at the port of
The beef
built an electrically operated
storage warehouse that Colonel
bakery that produced up to 400
Ernest Graves built at the
tons of bread daily. American
Depot in central France had a
troops would not go hungry.
The
plant built
by the Americans at
was the largest
France in 1918.
Soldiers line up
a meal. Constructing facilities to bring
to the troops was an
important
France.
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