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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X THE "WAR TRADERS" AND MUNITION MAKERS If we give any thought to the subject we probably think of the makers of war munitions as rather unimportant concerns that sell to their respective governments along with other private customers. As a matter of fact, the munition makers form one of the most powerful industrial combinations in the civilized world. The capitalization runs into the thousands of millions. The companies include among their stockholders and directors the most powerful individuals in their respective countries. They are related to the great banking houses and have a close and intimate connection with the ruling classes of every country in Europe. Their annual contracts, even in peace times, approximate a thousand million dollars. The profits are colossal, and the munition makers, with their international understandings (in peace times), approach very closely to a world monopoly. Prior to the war the munition interests in the United States included the Carnegie Steel Company (a part of the United States Steel Corporation), the Bethlehem Steel Company, the Midvale Steel Company, and the du Pont Powder Trust, with a combined capitalization, including the Steel Trust, of nearly $2,000,000,000. And this does not include the ship-building plants, the minor munition and smallarms factories, and the multitude of plants that have been converted into munition works during the present war. In Germany the combination includes the Krupp Works and the German Arms and Munitions Factories, with a capitalization of over a hundred millions more. There are four leading firms in Great Britain with a capitalization of $250,000,000, and with branches (note the internationalization of the munition makers) in five or six other countries....
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- EditoreTheClassics.us
- Data di pubblicazione2013
- ISBN 10 1230304924
- ISBN 13 9781230304922
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine82
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