Word: mezhlauk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bolshevism's executors pungently appeared last week at a Congress of Master Builders in the Kremlin with Dictator Joseph Stalin and most other Soviet bigwigs present. To make the opening speech Russia's cloistered priesthood of planners, the Gosplan, sent their economic abbot, Comrade Valerian Ivanovich Mezhlauk, chairman of the State Planning Commission...
...Last year we meant to reduce building costs by 15%-we reduced them by 1%!" boomed Mezhlauk. "This year we planned to reduce costs by 14.5%-we reduced them...
...roared back Planner Mezhlauk. "Why, indeed? Because you, my dear Comrade Commissars, don't run your business properly...
...bespectacled Mr. Ginsberg was then produced by Planner Mezhlauk. To his satisfaction Mr. Ginsberg proved to Dictator Stalin & Commissars that in the U. S. building industry one U.S. workman accomplishes as much in a given time as four Russians in the Soviet building industry. In the stone cutting industry, said Mr. Ginsberg, one U.S. quarryman equals ten Russians...