COST OF WAR
American Estimate (10.46 p.m.) WASHINGTON. May 31. American university research students published an estimate of direct war expenditures, not including destruction and damage to property. The total for all countries is 1.030.000.000.000 dollars. The United Nations spent 100.000.000.000 dollars more than the Axis countries. Expenditure by countries in millions of dollars is as follows: — Qtnfoc PRO t»0(
Tlie university commented that if all the nionev scent on this war since 1934 was distributed equally among all the people of the world, every man. woman and child would have received 500 dollars.
United States Russia 280.mx 170.00C Great Britain 64.20T France 1.30C South American countries .. . 9,276 Canada 68.414 New Zealand. Australia, and South Africa 4,620 Belgium 3,600 Poland 2.000 Czechoslovakia 1.500 Netherlands 1.000 Norway 93 Germany 258,900 Italy 94.000 Japan 44,000
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23216, 1 June 1945, Page 4
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