Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steel is the pet industry in the U.S.S.R. as it is in any other major power. Soviet steel labor is elite labor, with an efficiency twice that of other Soviet workers. A severe drag on Russian steel production is the fact that 95% of Russia's working iron deposits lie west of the Ural's industrial complex, and 85% of its coking-coal reserves lie east of it. Bringing coal and iron together to make steel puts a heavy strain on Russia's inadequate transport system and slows down the growth of the steel industry...
This does not mean that the Russians are likely to starve - in peace or war. It does mean that the weak agricultural base will be a drag upon any very rapid expansion of Russian industry...
...drag upon a woman's heart, as though...
...aunt of Hugo and Frederic in a gently caustic manner; Karlweis is magnificent as a melancholy millionaire who eventually tries to give away his money. In spite of all these excellent performances, and those by the remainder of the cast, there are scenes in "Ring Round the Moon" that drag. Most of these are in the first act, which is almost entirely exposition. This very slow first act has to be remedied before the play can hold constant interest...
...whip, inconspicuous Francis Myers. His opponent, Pennsylvania's able, red-haired Governor Jim Duff, was popular, and Republicans had not lost an off-year election in the state since 1934. In California, Representative Richard Nixon, the man who did most (in the House Un-American Activities Committee) to drag the Alger Hiss case into the open, was conceded a big lead toward the Senate over Fair Dealing Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas...