Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jackie Kennedy and Nina Khrushchev get together on basic matters of the two leading nations! There would be less pettiness and fewer deadlocks in the struggle for world peace...
...Utopians think that science can transform the Atlantic Ocean into lemonade," snorted Karl Marx's coworker, Friedrich Engels. Yet who should be serving up lemonade last week than that old realist Nikita Khrushchev. In the Kremlin's marble-hailed Palace of the Congresses, addressing the Communist Party Central Committee and more than 5,000 other comrades, Nikita promised that one great force would miraculously straighten out the Soviet economic mess: Big Chemistry...
Between 1964 and 1970, Khrushchev announced, the regime will spend $46 billion to expand the Soviet chemical industry-about the same amount that now goes annually into all domestic economic development. Where would the additional money come from? Khrushchev hinted at a radical reduction in military spending. More important, he admitted that Russia would need credit and supplies, including entire factories, from the West-but not, he fumed, at "fabulous profits" to the capitalists...
...about "satisfying the requirements of the people." Moreover, new products must show better design, because it is "no longer possible to tolerate" Russian consumer goods that "look less smart than foreign articles." An even more urgent task for Big Chemistry is the production of chemical fertilizer. Its output, promised Khrushchev, would be quadrupled from 20 million tons this year to 80 million tons by 1970. This would permit Russia to catch up with the U.S., for U.S. farm surpluses are not the result of any "special American wisdom," Khrushchev insisted; it is just that the U.S. uses almost twice...
Major new investments in the chemical industry are sure to force a cutback in consumer production, housing, possibly defense; but the situation on Russian farms warrants it. Yields this year have been poor in the Ukraine and Siberia. Last week the administrator for the Vir gin Lands, Khrushchev's pet farm project, openly admitted disaster in his regions as well, citing staggering examples of mismanagement and inefficiency...