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Excerpt from The Story of Ordnance in the World War
From the industrial field we received a generous contribution of the best ability of the country. Men came to unfamiliar tasks, to buy and procure unfamiliar materials in markets where no supply existed. Without a lamp or a ring they had to produce Aladdin's genii to bring forth these hundred thousand separate items of fight ing materiel. They had to provide plants, to teach methods which they, themselves, often had to learn anew. The personnel had to be improvised to care for the inspection of this prodigious volume of varied material, to prove it with firing tests at Aberdeen and elsewhere, to develop it from the first model through to the point of successful quantity production. The intricate problem of supply to armies in the field had to be worked out, largely by a personnel new to the task.
When I survey the extent of that labor you performed in your country's interest, I deplore the inadequacy of any tribute it is within my power to pay your service.
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