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TXGunNut said The folks in charge of records and furnaces were apparently in cahoots several decades back and some records we would all love to see…and some we could care less about…were incinerated to provide heat and steam power for the sprawling Winchester factory.
  

Stevens had a much more compelling reason to incinerate (accidentally, of course) their records:  the Nye Committee on war-profiteering.