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...billion of "other imports" such as cotton and non-ferrous metals in the next four years...
...promptly forthcoming. It concerned Professor S. P. Alexandrov, Soviet adviser to the Soviet delegation to the Atomic Energy Commission. Said Alexeev: "It was hardly of his own free will that Professor Alexandrov, known in America, a prominent expert in metallurgy and former director of the Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals, accepted in 1936 the job of chief engineer of the GULAG (Department of Concentration Camps...
Thirsty for atomic news, good or bad, the Manhattan dailies last week pounced on some remarks made by Soviet scientific adviser Semen P. Alexandrov. who is a bigwig at Moscow's Central Institute of Research in Non-Ferrous Metals, and was one of Russia's two official witnesses at Bikini. It might be useful, Professor Alexandrov had suggested, to have a "balance sheet" which would show the amount of each nation's raw material and the efficiency of mining methods. It might also be useful to compare notes on how uranium and thorium deposits were classified. Russia...
Moscow said nothing. But in San Francisco, Professor Simon Peter Alexandrov, one of the two official Soviet witnesses at Bikini, stepped ashore from the U.S.S. Panamint with startling news. Alexandrov (who works at the Moscow Central Institute of Research in Non-Ferrous Metals) said that his country was preparing to set off its own experimental atom bomb "some place in Russia where it would not be dangerous to people or wildlife (see below) . . . Siberia, in the mountainous area of Russia, in the Arctic or in the islands north of Canada. . . Very likely members of the United Nations will be invited...
...Canada had produced 16,200 aircraft, 28,000 heavy field and naval guns, 1,500,000 machine guns and rifles, 8,000 ships, 800,000 vehicles, ammunition in the millions of rounds. To turn out these and scores of other items, Canada had doubled pig-iron production, tripled non-ferrous metal production, increased chemical manufacturing 233%. Said Howe with pride: "This unprecedented expansion . . . has resulted in manufacturing becoming the leading industry of the country . . , [and] on a production rather than an assembly basis." Turning to peacetime production, he pointed out that the Government had spent $720 million on land, plants...