Generale, as this mysterious, monolithic company is usually called, directly or indirectly controls about 20 percent of Belgian industry.
Belgian industry claims 25% of the labor force and agriculture only 2%.
Part of its goal was to keep Belgian industry strong during the war so as to not leave the economy crippled once the war ended.
Tapping rubber trees for Belgian industry, the Congolese were under constant threat of having limbs cut off if they didn't work fast enough.
Belgian industry and capital played an important part in developing the railways of France and Russia.
All the rolling stock was supplied by Belgian industries, with a small exception: the original electrical equipment came from Germany.
It is funded by the Belgian federal Ministry of public health and assessed in collaboration with Belgian industry.
The circle entertains business connections and helps its members to get in the direction committees of Belgian industry.
Mr Hopper returned to general consulting with Belgian and French industry in 1964-65.
The finding of radium deposits in Katanga at the same time eventually led to a Belgian radium-extracting industry.