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Chicago food trade totals soar as war fosters global supply
Chicago reports place the city at the center of wartime food logistics with more than 40,000,000 tons of cereals shipped since 1915 and over 6,000,000 tons of meat moved from packing houses for foreign consumption. Fats reach 1,800,000 tons. 20,145,000 bushels of potatoes and millions of livestock also shipped.
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Chicago
Stock Yards
Board of Trade
Washington, D
William G. McAdoo
Lowden
Nllmois
Railroad Administration
McAdoo
Mississippi River
National Drainage Congress
Wilson
Federal Waterways Commission
Congress
National Department of Public Works
Edmund T. Perkins
Charles @. Dawes
State Highway Commission
Springfield
American Public Health Association
Ilinois State Department of Public Health
Ilinois Department of Labor
Naonal Association of Fairs
Ilinois
Sedalia
Alton
Bluffs
Illinois
Illinois Teachers’ Reading Circle Board
Rantoul
Ail
Aurora
A. W. Brayton
Mount Morris
State Historical Society
Northern Illinois Horticultural Society
South Water Street Commission
John G. Gamber
America
State of Illinois
Virgil Hinshaw
Prohibition National Committee
Hinshaw
William F. Ogburn
Washington State University
War Labor Board
Tlinois
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
State Council of Defense
Illinois State Teachers’ Association
Red Cross
Young Men's Christian Association
Bloomington
H. E. Young
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Centralia
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State Civil Service Commission
Supreme Court
Independent Labor Party
Cook County