"The building itself wasn't designed as a munitions factory, it was a converted mill and one of the major problems was the floors were wooden and obviously having nitric acid (TNT ingredient) near wood is very dangerous.
One acquaintance who made a considerable impression on him in the thirties was Baron Axel Wenner-Green, the Swedish industrialist, who is heavily interested in the Electrolux and Servel Corporationa and whose European holdings include timber lands, paper mills, and munitions factories.
With the proceeds, Flick expanded his empire to include iron-ore and coal mines, foundries, steel mills, chemical plants, trucks, airplanes, railroad interests, and munitions plants.
"The military advocate general did not find any evidence to support the assertion that the mill was attacked from the air using precise munitions, as alleged in the human rights council fact-finding report," it said.
As a result, a general strike was called, and on 1918, work was stopped in railways, docks, factories, mills, theatres, cinemas, trams, public services, shipyards, newspapers, shops, and even official munitions factories.
He was protesting American munitions shipments to Europe in World War I. Three years later, Harry Newton, a German sympathizer and resident of Mills No. 3, told an undercover officer that for $5,000, he would blow up a railroad works or, if preferred, Morgan's headquarters on Wall Street.
Jyväskylä is a rail junction; local industry includes paper and plywood mills, metallurgical and wool-dyeing works, foodstuffs and pharmaceutical factories, and a national munitions-production centre.
The munitions eventually exploded.
Or buy armor-piercing munitions?
