Chapter 263 – The Ootori Truck Factory (1)

In the first half of May, a small part of Ootori was wrapped in tension.

The main cause was the “dream” I had conveyed. After all, on this May 15, the “May 15 Incident” would occur.

However, the world itself was relatively calm.

In particular, the Ootori Group was progressing far too smoothly.

Even though the world economy was at rock bottom during the Great Depression, we were busy shopping abroad, mainly in America. Precision machinery and machine tools of excellent quality were also being purchased in large quantities from places such as Germany and Czechoslovakia.

And the dollars that were difficult to bring into Japan were instead pouring in as enormous amounts of products. For Ootori, and for Japan as well, they were becoming irreplaceable “assets.”

Moreover, since we were making such flashy purchases while the world economy was at