Foot Soldiers

Boston bootmakers are turning out 249 standard sizes of Army shoes--plus special lasts from plaster casts--giving the U.S. soldier the world's best military fit.

Major Edward Tremaine, Quartermaster Corps purchasing agent, buys 2,500,000 pairs a month. According to the wearability figures these should keep 16,250,000 soldiers in shoes.

The Russian Army provides only 15 standard sizes and Germany has only a third as many as the U.S. The U.S. theory is logically irrefutable: by providing a multiplicity of sizes, more pairs of feet can be drafted. So far as is known the Russians have not propounded a theory.

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