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Next to Josef Stalin the most hotly publicized hero in all Soviet Russia is stocky, thick-mustached Lazare Moiseyevich Kaganovich, a smart, ruthless Jew who is credited with leading and driving the Russian peasantry to sow and reap their bumper harvest (TIME...
...previous year in Soviet or Tsarist times, a grand and overflowing total of 89,800,000 metric tons (3,323,000.000 bushels). In wheat, again according to Izvestia, Russian production was nearly double that of the U. S. in 1933 and almost equal to the 1915 U. S. wheat bumper of bumpers...
...Molotov, after burrowing through his usual mound of statistics, emerged to say that the Second Five-Year Plan, now entering its second year, will "make life brighter and better for our people." Claiming that the production of Russia's heavy industries was upped 11% last year and that bumper crops had wiped out the grain shortage, Premier Molotov admitted that the meat shortage is still acute...
...time is approaching when the problem of war debts must be given a decent burial. If the administration opens hasty, ill-considered negotiations now, it will be rewarded with a bumper crop of defaults. If it shows a meek willingness to take what is offered, the nominal sum which crosses the Atlantic will have more of a nuisance value than a commercial one, and will tangibly lower the nation's diplomatic batting average. The failure of ninety-five per cent of the debt-payments due last year resulted not merely from the poverty of the defaulting and token-paying countries...
Newspaper correspondents have steadily stressed the fact that Russians are harvesting bumper wheat crops this year (TIME, July 3). But they believe that there is still famine, left over from last year's poor crop. Nervous, the Soviet Government last week bottled up all foreign correspondents in Moscow, refused to permit them to travel in the provinces unless it could be certain what they are looking...