![]() ![]() The second chapter details the level of profits made by many major US corporations made in the years preceding World War I and compares them to the significantly greater profits made from and during the war. The first chapter cites telling statistics: 21,000 people became millionaires and billionaires during the war four million men served the growth of national debt by a factor of 25 from 1898 to 1918. The work was published by Reader's Digest as a condensed book supplement, which added to its popularity. The speech was well received and he wrote an expanded version of it, which was published as War Is A Racket. ![]() Butler embarked on a national lecture tour, where he gave his speech about how commercial interests benefit from war. After his retirement from the Marine Corps in the early 1930s, General Smedley D. ![]()
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