Word: stat
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Dates: during 1918-1918
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...failure may well fall to one side or the other according to the relative strength or weakness of the expert scientific knowledge of the two great groups of combatants. A few examples taken at random from this field may serve the present purpose. The British Minister of Munitions stat- ed not long ago that the war would be won by ammonium nitrate. What he meant to emphasize was the fact that an adequate supply of explosives was essential to victory and that this supply depended, under the conditions of today, on getting ammonium nitrate in sufficient quantities. This, of course...