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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with other officers who were skeptical, postponed decision but wired asking about the condition of the troops who would be called upon to bear the brunt of the offensive. As he was having dinner that night the answers came back. They were moderately encouraging. After dinner Galliéni got Joffre on the telephone, renewed his arguments, and at ten o'clock that night Joffre issued his Instruction No. 6: "It is desirable to take advantage of the exposed position of the German First Army . . . all dispositions will be taken during the day of Sept. 5, with a view...
...pulling his people out in comparative safety that night. He prepared to attack, moved his headquarters to the front, casually invited some British generals in to dinner-it was just before the emergency made Foch Supreme Allied Commander-watched his troops retreat in good order after dark. Then he got a new command made up of the 9th and another division, the remnants of two more, seven squadrons of French cavalry, one British cavalry division, took them into the joint British-French action that halted the German offensive in early April...
...months, to two years-this over the bitter opposition of most French politicians. He has confidence in the Army he has built. During the Munich crisis he believed the French Army was ready to fight, and General Gamelin quietly went to London to tell the statesmen so. He got about the same attention that he got in 1936 from short-lived Premier Sarraut when he told the Government he could chase the Germans out of the Rhineland if they wanted him to. The thoroughgoing General would not agree to shove off, however, without ordering a general mobilization and M. Sarraut...
...such huge purchases was stupendous. Of the whole period, 1916 was the bonanza high point; common stocks of sixty-eight major U. S. industrials paid a total of $724,900,000 to investors during that year. Du Pont, Hercules Powder Co., Remington Arms, Savage, and Winchester Arms all got big Allied orders for munitions. U. S. Steel converted a deficit of $1,700,000 before common dividends in 1914 to a net for common of $50,600,000 in 1915 and $246,300,000 in 1916. Copper went to 28? a pound in 1916 (it was stabilized in the fall...
...chemical industry got a further boost when the U. S. entered the War: German patents were confiscated and turned over to U. S. firms. But after the U. S. entered the War, prices for many commodities were fixed below their neutrality highs and although war profits were bigger on bigger volume, neutrality's profits were not eaten into by high war taxes...