Show Powder Store Burned Nashville Tenn Forty five Forty five million mil lion pounds of powder were destroyed destroy destroy- ed by fire at the Old Hickory powder powder pow pow- der plant near here The loss losS' on the basis of present prices is estimated at atmore more than The powder pow pow- der was manufactured for the fedral fed fed- rul ral n l government during the war at ata a cost of approximately Machinery and buildings erected by bythe bythe bythe the government during the war at a acost cost coot of f more than were also destroyed by the flames which swep over an area of at forty acres in II the he i heart of the plant The fire was ile- ile Glared to be the greatest single loss loss' suffered by the government since ince the world war and was rated as cne erne of the most destructive incidents in the history of government munitions plants |