Technology like Codon's could be set up as a munitions factory, replicating viruses such as the 1918 influenza, Ebola or smallpox.

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Wearing a baggy, navy corduroy suit brightened by a turquoise Little Bear tie, Hirsh, 51, is holding court in his cinder-block-walled office in a former munitions factory in Toronto.

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They worked 14-hour days, seven days a week - six days producing munitions in the factory and the seventh digging trenches for the approaching front.

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Founded in 1941 as Factory Canteens to feed munitions workers in the U.K., it was acquired by Grand Metropolitan in the 1960s.

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