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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...River Forest (Chicago suburb) and told him about a certain Max Orendorff, who: 1) had been one of their farmer acquaintances; 2) had turned bootlegger; 3) had made a fortune in the days when Capone flourished; 4) had been sent to Atlanta. If the Aults could help him get out of prison, said Mrs. Ault, Max Orendorff had promised to make it well worth their while...
Lorenson Bandy, an electrical engineer, agreed to help. He financed several trips costing from $175 to $600, which Son Robert took to get their wealthy friend, Orendorff, freed. Then came the exciting word that he had been released. Then came word that he had died, leaving loyal Maude Ault and her son all his holdings in Illinois and Texas real estate, oil lands worth from $30,000,000 to $50,000,000. To help the Aults collect their vast inheritance, Mr. Bandy put up more money. A Chicago business man named Newton F. Grey, said the Government, invested...
...Czecho slovakia, an exporting country, had $80,000,000 in gold in its national bank, enough to offset Germany's adverse trade balance for a few months, and about two and a half times that much in foreign assets and ex change, which Germany may not get (see p. 18). This loot was small but enough to make any pinched-bellied dictator's fingers itch...
...world knew that Germany now economically and politically dominated emasculated Czecho-Slovakia. But the fact that Germany had recently gone through the diplomatic motions of requesting (and getting) currency adjustments, railroad, road and canal rights-of-way across Czecho-Slovakia seemed to indicate that the Reich was content with de facto subjugation. Had Herr Hitler not said that all he wanted was to get all the Germans back together again? Had he not signed a declaration with Britain not to do anything that might disturb the peace of Europe without consulting...
From the CzechoSlovak seizure Germany will get seven major armament and several aircraft & engine plants. The arms factories consist of the four plants of the Skoda works, a big subterranean plant in Slovakia, the famed Witkowitz plant near Moravská Ostrava, partly owned by the Rothschild banking interests of London, and a government-owned steel works at Kladno which manufactures rifles, revolvers and sabres. Other valuable things produced by Czecho-Slovakia were the air-cooled Tatra and Walter airplane engines. None of the arms factories, however, can be run without substantial imports of raw materials. All told...