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...column across Finland toward Tornio on the Swedish-Finnish frontier. Some 4,000 Swedes volunteered for the Finnish Army and several hundred of them last week managed to cross the frontier and join up. Even more important were the supplies rushed to Finland by Sweden's great Bofors armament works, which sent gratis 25 anti-aircraft guns originally ordered by Poland...
...already crushing British income tax, which long ago ceased to be purely a "soak-the-rich" proposition, will have to be extended downward from the white-collar to the soiled-collar class. Britain is spending half her national income on the war, the Chancellor warned, yet even with armament plants going full blast 1,400,000 workers are still unemployed. Sir John, with typical British forthrightness, declared that a war of this magnitude cannot be fought on any easy assumption that it will not depress the existing standard of living in Britain and elsewhere...
...York's No. 3, York Safe & Lock Co., has built some of the world's largest vaults, and during World War I built most of the U. S. Army's howitzers. Now York Safe & Lock Co. is completing a big plant addition for armament production, is hard at work building carriages for the U. S. Army's three-inch anti-aircraft guns. The carriages are so intricate that the dismantled parts take up 52 square feet of floor space, and the most that can be produced is ten or twelve per month. The company also...
...came from Sweden. There the national budget, for years as soundly balanced as the Great Wallendas, was shown to have taken a terrific topple from the high wire. Loss of revenues due to wartime trade curtailment, plus the cost of keeping the Army and Navy mobilized for emergency, plus armament purchases and providing urban Swedes with gas masks and air-raid shelters, had largely done the job. Finance Minister Dr. Ernst Wigforss announced that since he reported balance to the Riksdag last January, the Kingdom had fallen in the red 600,000,000 kroner...
Laborite last year, Mr. Stokes maintains that the whole British armament program is shot through with profiteering...