There are hundreds of great Food Destructors in the United Kingdom. The
man-power at their service, spread over our breweries and distilleries,
numbers hundreds of thousands of men; their capital is hundreds of
millions. This is a summary of the work they did in the first 1,000 days
of the war:
=They sacrificed 4,400,000 tons of grain and 340,000 tons of sugar,
enough to ration the whole United Kingdom with bread for 43 weeks and
sugar for 33 weeks.=
=They took from every kitchen cupboard in the land 600 pounds of bread
and 76 pounds of sugar.=
=They destroyed bread and sugar to last every child under fifteen for
every day of the war.=
=They took from our people over £512,000,000.=
=They used up labour and transport for lifting over 50,000,000 tons. By
sea they used up 60 ships of 5,000 tons; by rail their raw materials and
the finished products would make up a train long enough to reach nearly
round the world.=
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