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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 be making ten thousand shells a day. And every
shell was one more chance for victory against the Hun. It became
an obsession with him to make more, ever more.
As the work advanced, he found an unexpected enthusiasm in Graham.
Here was something to be done, a new thing. The steel mill had been
long established. Its days went on monotonously. The boy found it
noisy, dirty, without appeal to his imagination. But the shell
plant was different. There were new problems to face, of labor, of
supplies, of shipping and output.
He was, however, reluctantly coming to the conclusion that the
break with Germany was the final step that the Government intended
to take. That it would not declare war.
However, the break had done something. It had provided him with
men from the local National Guard to police the plant, and he found
the government taking a new interest, an official interest, in his
safety.


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