Word: grains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...starting a revolution, there was only one thing to do: raise wages. Solemnly last week the Central Executive Committee raised, effective Jan. 1 the wages of millions of good Soviet proletarians, upped pensions and even scholarships. In generous mood it also upped the price the State pays farmers for grain...
Carefully guarding the secret of exactly how much grain Russia has raised, a secret worth money to grain speculators such as the Soviet Government. Premier Molotov declared with gusto: "One billion five hundred million bushels of grain will be at the disposal of the people. . . . Our reserves are enormous. . . . Ten thousand new bread shops will be opened before April 1. ... In 1928, when bread rationing began, there were 123,000 State and cooperative stores. Today there...
That to smash the small farmer and exalt the collective farm was good policy is J. Stalin's great claim. He holds the entire situation, including the statistics, in his dictatorial hands. Last week Premier Molotov claimed that this year only 8% of Russia's grain came from small farmers who supplied 86% in 1929. In other words J. Stalin & Co. now claim to get 92% of their grain from collectives?the greatest agricultural revolution in all history...
From Novosibirsk last week came the usual bloody item of Soviet grain news, an item so commonplace as to excite no Russian remark. Because the collective farm "Red Front" raised only 40% of its State-scheduled grain quota, the Western Siberian Circuit Court sentenced four of the collective's officials to be shot...
...jury consisted of the president of the Peru, Ill. school board, a dealer in industrial diamonds, an insurance salesman, a young bookbinder, an unemployed telephone engineer, an automobile dealer, a coal salesman, a dairy farmer, the mayor of Millington, Ill., an employe of a grain and lumber company, an unemployed salesman of office supplies, a grocer. Two were in their 50's, six were in their 40's, two in their 30's, two in their 20's. They were a fairly representative cross-section of the middle class of U. S. business. Sitting in judgment...