at universities and at the quartermaster cause on subsystems laboratories in chicago studies food for energy the food weapons of our enemies are investigated the japanese are supposed to produce great fighting energy out of a handful of rice this is the amount of rice one of our soldiers would have to eat to approach the energy in his own right but that's these are supposed to have a superman vitamin pill the pill story is checked by doctor and silkies and his staff at the university of minnesota vitamins and pills do not help pull weight but vitamins to help the body use food only after eating actual food and a soldier pull more weight or push a bayonet harder to in this country the job is comparatively simple all army cooks follow a standard menu prepared by nutritionists in washington vegetables and fruits milk and eggs are centrally purchased in vast quantities by army officers and civilian expert the pick of the country's fresh meat is gone nearly a pound a day the job of supply gets more difficult as a million men go overseas for the what a mess the cost base is the problem of shipping space so meat is the ball saving sixty percent for dehydration every exit  separated from the whites and put through a drive our soldiers on the other side of the world will be provided with breakfast up and made of this pure your vegetables such as be go through a new process which preserves color and taste and buy them a country while these amazing developments in food processing are now used principally for the army millions of civilians will be benefited after the war for in the future no household need be without vitamin rich vegetables and fruits at any time the hydrated food is easy to keep the quarter between the dehydration and the un created process when a soldier is out in the field and away from care costs he must carry his own russian pre cooked meat for emergency rations were developed in the army laboratory for this p here to emphasis is put on takes as well as on the food value of the russian which consists of a can of meat for each meal and the second unit containing concentrated part tech coffee powder and  total weight three and a half pounds for three square meals a day but specialized troops and mobile warfare needed still more compact ration so the army has developed the now famous scale russian that completely streamlined meals originally designed for paratroops k proved ideal for tank busters commandos and all isolated unit each package contains a balance by them enrich me a day's ration weighs about items and we are in the possession of you you methods of preparation which make mankind independent of distance and climb these warlords are also boardwalks against them and then catastrophe to produce them we have a new industry when the army asked the suppliers to build this packaged food industry overnight they didn't know they were getting kale ready for africa a chewing gum company clung together a package assembly line out strategic materials tests such as the bubble test sometimes uncover imperfections carry cartons must be air and water tight gas proof and seat worth with science that is service and the greatest food producing country in the world backing him up the american soldier no matter where you may be in the jungle in the arctic the desert or in his home ca