THE EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARY, THE GYNTHESIA CHEMICAL PLANT ,ARE CLOSELY CONNECTED WITH THE OSTI NAD LABEM UNION THROUGH PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS.

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The prinrip~l prge~ucer of explosives; ammunition; etc.; is Explosia; .
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Czech Explosive Materials Corporation, Tts main plant is in Sumatin, near
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of explosives, ammun~.tion, detonators, pic is cid, e
Dynamic Nobel, Inc,, Bratislava; Skoda Plant, Filser.; Bratislava Ammo-
nition Factory and J. Roth iron and Metal Foundry, Tnc., Bratislava, Detonator
and Ammunition Factory, formerly Sellier and Be11ot, Prague; Mobe1-Bickford,
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The Czech Armanents Plants, Inc., in Brno, with a capital of 120
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The most important producer of explosives, Explasia, Czech Explosive
P~aterials Corporation. It has capital of 60 million Kc and belongs to the ,
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heroical Industries Ltd., in London; Nobel Industries, Ltd.; in
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London; Societe Centrals du Dynamite; in Paris; and DuPont in the LISA. Ex-
losives of all sorts, nitrecallulose, dynamite, pierie acid, and also ni- ,
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