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The number of deaths in battle in all the foreign wars put together, for the last century and a quarter, aggregate considerably less than one year's death record for our industries.
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Roosevelt states that the total number of battle deaths in foreign wars over the last century and a quarter is less than the annual death toll from industrial accidents.
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