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TIL that During World War II, the Quaker Oats company , through its subsidiary the Q. O. Ordnance Company, operated the Cornhusker Ordnance Plant as a government-owned, contractor-operated 11,960-acre site that manufactured millions of pieces of various artillery munitions.

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