The huge seizure was made on October 6, 1917, a full months after the United States declared war On the Central Powers, by passage of the "Trading with the Enemy" Act. a law which still is in force.
The principal objectives of the act were to remove all possibility of enemy control of property in the United States and to employ the sequestered properties and funds for American war use, One of the oddest facts in American history was that half-year delay in seizing the German property. Throughout the six months, while the United States was straining every effort, to put fighting men into France. German concerns operating in the'
New York. April 17 Genera] Motors Corp. is now in production on its $61,000.000 machine gun order and is months ahead of schedule. Charles E. Wilson, President of the company, declares. states the "Christian Science Monitor."
Machine gun production lines are in operation in General Motors plants in Saginaw ud Flint. Mich. and a stock of the completed gun is being bull up, ready when called for by the United States Army.
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