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Show ESTIMATED COST OF WAR French Economist Declares That Expenditure Ex-penditure is $2,CO0,00O an Hour. Paris. Capt. Edmund Thery, widely known as an economist, estimates that that total military expenditures for the first year of the war will be 50,000,000,-000 50,000,000,-000 francs (110,000,000,000) for the seven allies and 37,000,000,000 francs $7,400,000,000) for Germany, Austria and Turkey. This makes an average of 7,250,000.000 francs $(1,440,000,000) a month, 242,000,000 francs ($48,400,-000) ($48,400,-000) a day, 10,000,000 francs ($2,000,-000) ($2,000,-000) an hour. He believes the economic econo-mic powers of Great Britain, France and Russia can support the strain much more easily than their opponents. |