Word: grigoriy
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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Opened Jan. 1 and named after the Premier of the Soviet Union, mammoth Molotov was given until April 1 to tune up. When the tuning progressed slowly Dictator Josef Stalin sent black-eyed Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, Minister of Heavy Industry, rushing out to Molotov with what amounted to powers of life & death (TIME, April 11). By April 15, Moscow ordered, Molotov must be tuned up and producing...
...news from "Europe's Largest Motor Car Factory," the $119,000,000 "Molotov Works" recently built near old Nizhnii Novgorod by the Austin Company of Cleveland, Ohio, caused Dictator Stalin to rush out to this luckless plant last week the Commissar for Heavy Industry himself, Comrade Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, one of Stalin's best and closest friends...
...burden of the first Five-Year Plan has fallen most heavily lately on the bulky shoulders of Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, chairman of the Supreme Economic Council until three weeks ago, the weight of the second Piatiletka will be carried mostly by a hitherto minor figure in Russian industry, Isidor E. Liubimov, onetime Deputy Commissar of Trade and delegate to the London wheat conference last spring. In preparation for the new plan, the Supreme Economic Council was recently reorganized into three separate departments?Heavy Industry, Light Industry and Lumber (TIME, Jan. 18). Commissar Liubimov will have the stupendous task of providing Russia...
...were eleven other members of the lodge higher than that. Russia's Supreme Economic Council is in fact one of eleven commissariats in the Russian Cabinet or Union Council of People's Commissars. It has charge of all factories, mines, mills, is a super-Department of Commerce. Its chairman, Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, is to Josef Stalin as Herbert Hoover was to Presidents Harding & Coolidge. Last week Stalin's Hoover took charge of the new subdivision of Heavy Industry (coal, iron, steel, et al.) and the Soviet press spent much time explaining that he lost no prestige by so doing...