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Purpose: To supply the Soviet Union with "urgently needed Czechoslovak goods," chiefly munitions from the great Czechoslovak works of Skoda...
...discreetly as the senior class of a divinity school. One night their limousines purred over to Nice where they attended the Opera en masse. Another day they went for a ride as far as Menton, alighted and strolled about two & two, discussing the affairs of Krupp, Schneider, Vickers, Skoda...
...from innocent in the game of international armaments, U. S. munitions makers were very small fry indeed compared to such vast purveyors of war materials as France's Comité des Forges and Schneider-Creusot, Germany's Krupp, Britain's Vickers-Armstrong, Czechoslovakia's Skoda. First companies called before Senator Nye's committee were Electric Boat Co. of Groton, Conn, (submarines) and Driggs Ordnance & Engineering Co. (antiaircraft guns). Those who expected to hear the cannons roar had to content themselves with a volley of cap pistols. The business ethics of these companies might...
...Rumania had to pay 25% more than Jugoslavia paid for the same type of equipment," said General Cihofhi. "As a matter of fact the price at which the contract was let was a great deal higher than the price at which Skoda first wished to sell...
...deal for $3,300,000 worth of field guns Rumania's uniformed grafters set the price Skoda must pay to get the contract at some $800,000, which works out in native currency at 79,000,000 Rumanian...