Word: austingrad
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...Bryant: "We can do it within 15 months." Replied the responsible Soviet official, according to despatches, "The contract is yours. You will receive a large bonus if you complete the work in less than 15 months. In compliment to your company we shall probably call the city Austingrad." Austingrad will be the Detroit of Red Russia. Primarily it is intended as the Soviet focus of motor car manufacture, and $20,000,000 of the contract will be spent on car and tractor plants built for the latest type of straight line mass production. Three hundred motor vehicles per day will...
...buildings. Few concerns would dare contract to build such a city in 15 months. Gigantic specialist, the Austin Co. keeps in stock all essential parts of a carefully standardized line of buildings, is expert at getting these assembled by local labor. Thus only Austin engineers will go to Austingrad and all the actual assembling and construction on the spot will be done by Russians. From the founding of the company in 1904 it has sloganed: "Undivided Responsibility"-the idea that every phase of constructing a factory, an airport or a city like Austingrad should be covered by a single contract...
...Austingrad, industrial city projected by the Soviet, will centre around a great Ford plant, will be built by the Austin Co. of Cleveland...