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American engineers power US explosives with Muscle Shoals plant
The Ordnance Department backed a civilian effort led by Sherman Washburn to turn air and rock into ammonium nitrate for high explosives. The Muscle Shoals plant, built in eight months, produced 13 percent of all Allied high explosives for the 1919 spring offensive, and created a 25 000 resident wartime city.
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Ordnance Department
United States Army
America
Germany
Kalsey
Crank Sherman Washburn
Cornell
South America
Chile
Central America
Panama Canal
United States
South
Appalachian
Weg Uknaariad
Lcs
Ann Dunt
Mr. Washburn
United
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Air Nitrate Corporation
Muscle Shoals
Ala
Westinghouse Church Kerr Company
J. G. White Corporation
Chemical Construction Company
M. W. Kellogg Company
Alabama
Tenessee River