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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wide. By 1938, Associated had bought or formed some 500 corporations. The top of the pyramid had been jacked far into the sky as Builder Hopson shoved more operating companies into the base, inserted sub-holding companies near its apex. At one time, some bottom operating companies had to feed through eleven layers to get their tribute to the capstone. Today Associated's assets are booked at more than $1,000,000,000. After attempts at simplification, it still has 18 holding companies, stacked as deep as six layers, a bewildering complexity of operating companies. Total number of corporations...
...displace U. S. farm products; they supplemented the U. S. supply, prevented a shortage. Further, they came in because farm prices were high, and their only effect on domestic prices was to check a rise to famine levels, thus benefiting all consumers-including farmers who bought livestock feed. Another $45,000,000 of the increase was in sugar imports-that was mostly in higher prices, as sugar imports are controlled by quotas. Of the $261,000,000 remaining, $178,000,000 is accounted for by commodities like vegetable oils, olives, skins and wrapper tobacco which the U. S. always imports...
...Spain, to Yugoslavia, to Turkey reach other important tentacles of the Allied economic strangling plan. Starving Spain needs wheat. Great Britain, having cut Generalissimo Franco off from his German ore markets, will give him foreign exchange to feed his country from South America by buying Spanish copper, iron ore, mercury and lead. Yugoslavia now furnishes Germany with copper (from British-French-owned mines), Turkey might furnish chromium. The Allies will buy these countries' exports of these metals, also taking Yugoslavia's entire export prune crop, Turkey's entire surplus of figs, grapes and some tobacco, to sweeten...
...positively disgraceful to pose as you do, as the purveyor of reliable news and to feed your readers with entirely onesided and generally false information. It is in fact a dirty trick...