Germans Buying Turning Lathes
A short wartime dispatch describing Germany's scramble to buy back its own machine tools from Swiss customers at inflated prices — a small window into the industrial strain of the early war.
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Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · February 21, 1915 · Page 1
1 min readBASEL, Feb. 20.
The Germans are offering to purchase all the German turning lathes supplied to Swiss customers up to three years ago, paying the full price for same and a bonus up to 150 per machine extra.
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