Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1919 — Yankees in France Ate Millions of Pounds of Candy and Confections [ARTICLE]

Yankees in France Ate Millions of Pounds of Candy and Confections

An idea of the huge amount of candy consumed by the army is given in a war department announcement. During the five months from November 11, 1918, to April 11, 1919, there were purchased for shipment to the overseas forces 39,094,375 pounds of candy, 5,350,000' packages of salted almonds and peanuts and 2,625,000 packages of t popcorn confection. There was shipped during the month of February 5,335,696 pounds of candy. This included not only candy and confection? for sale in the sales commissaries, but also the amount authorized by the , ration allowance. The ration allowance of candy for our troops overseas for thp month of November amounted to approximately 3,000,000., pounds. it would take a convoy of 835 threeton trucks to carry this amount of candy. . -