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The newcompletion Situated on the outskirts

of the city, it spread over a vast area of what had once been waste

land Of the three long buildings, tere already in operation and the

third ell under way

To Clayton Spencer it was the realization of a dreah-walled enclosure without a certain surprise at the ease

hich it had all been accomplished, and a thrill of pride at the

achieve The casts,

e rusty heaps in the yard; the little

cars which carried thereat lathes turned the, only to lose their

polish when, heated again, they were ready for the ponderous ha jaws The delicacy of the work appealed to hi to a thousandth of an inch, the fastidious s alirls, most of whom had been watchmakers and jewelry-workers

And with each carload of the finished shells that left the plant he felt

a fine glow of satisfaction The output was creeping up Soon they would

beten thousand shells a day And every shell was one ainst the Hun It became an obsession with him to make

more, ever more