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Since 1935. Communists on Stalin's orders have soft-pedaled the policy known as "The World Revolution Of The World Proletariat," have loud-pedaled the policy known as "The Popular Front." Last week in Moscow, highest Soviet dignitaries and cheering mobs used the Red Square as a gigantic sounding board to loud-pedal World Revolution. Occasion was the 21st anniversary of The Bolshevik Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Loud Pedal | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...loud-pedal World Revolution is the No. 1 tenet of Trotskyism, but whatever Stalin loud-pedals is Stalinism. Last week Stalinists felt no embarrassment in hearing a loudspeaker blare across the Red Square from just back of where the Dictator was standing: "Long live the World Revolution! Long live the Leader [Stalin] of the International Working Class! Long live the Proletarian Revolution!" The vast and disciplined mob, moving across the Red Square wave on wave, took up each slogan as it was rolled out by the loudspeaker and enthusiastically shouted it in chorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Loud Pedal | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Even before 1935, when he began to soft-pedal World Revolution, J. Stalin was stingy about dispensing "Moscow gold" in the U. S. and Britain. Since 1935 many Reds have found him a Shylock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Loud Pedal | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Bury's warnings: 1) beware of worn upholstery; the innards may be worse; 2) don't believe speedometer mileage, look at the pedal wear; 3) a new paint job sometimes covers a multitude of sins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bury on Buying | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Fibre glass, which is simply glass drawn superfine, was made in Germany as far back as 1878. But this German product was coarse, expensive, heavy, crudely made (example: a woman on a jacked-up bicycle would pedal the fibre onto the back wheel). Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. will make fibre by forcing white-hot glass through tiny orifices with a jet of steam. Resulting fibres are 2/10,000 of an inch in diameter. About 100 of them are twisted into a strand of yarn which looks and feels like wool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Wonder-Child | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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