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Part Two: The Man Who Invented The Military-Industrial Complex

Behind the Bastards

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A Brief History of Crupp Cannons

In 18 68, Dan krupp sowed up at yet another paris exhibition with a brand new 14 inch gun. The barrel alone weighed 50 tons and the powder charged for each shell was a hundred pounds. A now desperate crupp offered to give the army hundreds of free guns. He found himself so anxious over the whole to bockle that he fled to be with his wife in a spaw town where he was incredibly out of place.

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