Word: hinterlander
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...that you can hardly recognize a town if you come back to it a month later. . . ." Heineberg example : Novosibirsk, Western Siberian city with a population of more than a million, which now blazes at night with the lights of new iron and steel, plane and munitions plants. Many another hinterland town, said Heineberg, has been similarly transformed into a modern industrial city of American-style concrete and steel buildings...
Olds's scheme was detailed in some spots, vague in others. Bidding for hinterland support, he listed 173 U.S. communities which would get new plants by 1946,* described exactly how many kw. they would get. To estimate the capacity needed five years hence, he assumed defense spending of $36,000,000.000 annually between 1943 and 1946. On this colossal base, FPC estimated 1945 total power consumption at 287 billion kw-h (the record up to now: 1940's 145 billion...
...purpose of the Plans was defensive -to shift Russia's center of gravity to the hinterland-and official statistics now put 33% of Russia's coal, power, iron, 80% of her copper production east of the Urals. But how well the Five-Year Plans have succeeded otherwise no one outside of Russia and few inside know. Doubtless the center of gravity has not yet shifted as far as Russian leaders wish...
...anything brings steel production down, it will probably be a shortage of pig iron and scrap. Pig was close to formal priorities last week, with defense already taking almost all its output. Scrap is short partly because it is under badly adjusted price controls, without sufficient price-incentive to hinterland junk dealers...
...experts on the U. S. hinterland set sail for South America to interpret themselves (and the U. S. hinterland) to Latins. Grizzled Author Sherwood Anderson (Home Town) headed for Chile; eager, pink-cheeked Novelist-Playwright Thornton Wilder (Our Town) expected to fill lecture-appointments under State Department auspices in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru...