Enough dollars

[nemo l'ancien]

Antd that is what? Freedom?

In War Is a Racket, an exposé of profiteering, U.S. Marine Corp Maj.
Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler wrote: "At least 21,000 new
millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during
the World War."

Big businesses—particularly the iron, steel, and munitions
industries—made a killing between 1914 and 1918. American Sugar
Refining Company registered profits of 300 percent; Anaconda Copper,
more than 300 percent; Bethlehem Steel, more than 800 percent; Central
Leather Company, 1,100 percent; DuPont, more than 950 percent; General
Chemical Company, 1,400 percent; International Nickel Company, 1,700
percent; U.S. Steel, more than 200 percent; and Utah Copper, more than
400 percent.

[Domenico Rosa]

nemo l'ancien > wrote in message >...
> Antd that is what? Freedom?
>
> In War Is a Racket, an exposé of profiteering, U.S. Marine Corp Maj.
> Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler wrote: "At least 21,000 new
> millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during
> the World War."

General Smedley Butler's "War is a Racket" is available at:

http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

DR