Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1917 — RUSH EQUIPMENT TO FRANCE [ARTICLE]

RUSH EQUIPMENT TO FRANCE

Within Twenty Days After Receipt of Order First of Engines and Cars Were Shipped. Within twenty days after the receipt by American manufacturers of designs for special locomotives and cars for the troops in France the first of 680 engines and 6,000 cars were ready for shipment. The mobilization of American manufacture for the war has been one of the most effective demonstrations of American industrial preparedness.