mill-supplies

Updated: June 11, 2025

Our non-productive departments consume a great deal of material, mill-supplies and fuels, but if we include those with all the rest of it, our figures will not show a right proportion." "What do you mean by your non-productive departments?" asked the boy. "That seems rather a curious phrase." "Those in which the work done is not directly a part of the making of guns or ammunition.

Francis Rolt-Wheeler - The Boy With the U.S. Census