...rias, 6 snack bars, and an outdoor snack bar. The restaurant service is a privately run civilian operation under contract to the Pentagon. Over 200,000 telephone calls are made daily through phones connected by 100,000 miles of telephone cable. The Defense Post Office handles about 1,200,000 pieces of mail monthly. Various libraries support our personnel in research and completion of their ork. The Army Library alone provides 300,000 publications and 1,700 periodicals in various languages. Stripped of its occupants, furniture and various decorations, the building alone is an extraordinary structure. Built during the early years of orld ar II, it is still thought of as one of the most efficient office buildings in the orld. Despite 17.5 miles of corridors it takes only seven minutes to alk beteen any to points in the building. The original site as nothing more than asteland, samps and dumps. 5.5 million cubic yards of earth, and 41,492 concrete piles contributed to the foundation of the building. Additionally, 680,000 tons of sand and gravel, dredged from the nearby Potomac River, ere processed into 435,000 cubic yards of concrete and molded into the Pentagon form. The building as constructed in the remarkably short time of 16 months and completed on January 15, 1943 at an approximate cost of 83 million. It consolidated 17 buildings of the ar Department and returned its investment ithin seven years. e hope this information ill serve to eliminate some of the myths surrounding the Pentagon and give an appreciation of the size of the building. a 1h à!ia8i8NormalCJsHaJmHsHtHNaNHeading 2ddiit5CJOJaQJataJAiDefault Paragraph FontBaBNormal ebdditOJaQJaaDVDCtioitlimbitenglezatAbout the Pentagon.dociiiUnknonGaaz Times Ne Roman5Symbol3z ArialiArial Unicode MSTimes Ne Roman0hFFa!a02QAbout the PentagonaDVDaDVD...
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