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...recent report the Commercial Counselor to the British Embassy at Berlin told His Majesty's Government that between January 1933 and August 1935 the unemployed in Germany were reduced from over 6,000,000 to less than 1,750,000 by: 1) the industrial boom arising from Rearmament; 2) re-introduction of German compulsory military service; 3) enrollment of youths in the Labor Service Corps; 4) return of women factory workers to domestic employment: 5) return of peasants who held jobs in factories to the land; and 6) new public works. Britain's Counselor estimated that in decreasing...
...price has risen 1 ¼? on the strength of gradually increasing demand from home industry. That demand is currently giving U. S. copper men their best year since 1930. Since the first of 1935, foreign copper has risen nearly 3? primarily on the strength of Europe's rearmament programs...
Questioned on the cost of Germany's rearmament bill this week, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain announced: "The Government has no official figures on Germany's military expenditures . . . but from such information as we have we see no reason to think that Mr. Winston Churchill's figure of ?800,000,000 ($4,000,000,000) during 1935 is excessive...
Although supplementary estimates for Britain's great rearmament scramble were issued only a few weeks ago, sensational further supplementary estimates were issued last week. These rocketed the 1936 rearmament bill to $940,000,000 with a further "rearmament loan" in prospect. To questions by nervous M. P.'s as to how quickly the Navy can act, Sir Samuel replied that very shortly the Admiralty will be able to announce that more than half its capital ships are being kept ready for immediate action...
Sixteen new British war boats will soon be laid down, four new British war aerodromes laid out; the rearmament estimate melon is cut among Britain's fighting services thus: Navy $406,445,000; Army $279,555,000; Air Force...