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...operators parceled out piecework to fast-knitting cohorts in the capital's Pushkin Dry Goods Factory, even to patients in his mental institution. Before long, Roifman's enterprise involved 52 factories, workshops and collective farms, was turning out sweaters, shirts and kerchiefs. Business was so good that Roifman had to expand into rented basements. After that, production increased rapidly. His total output, 460 tons, was retailed clandestinely at Moscow's busy Kursk Railroad Station through the collusion of two stationmasters, and at street markets...
...schools, who live in 42 barracks-like dormitories scattered throughout the city. About three days after the price announcement, a group of youths marched out of their dormitory after dinner chanting a slogan against the decree. They were soon joined by thousands of others, who also shouted complaints about piecework rates. The huge crowd moved slowly toward the center of town, accompanied by housewives. The main square was jammed, and to get a better look at the turbulent scene, many students climbed trees and telephone poles...
...biography of the typical young radical. He was born on Manhattan's Lower East Side, a land of pushcarts and bewildered immigrants finding their way in a new world. His father had a gift for languages, but none at all for keeping a job. His mother took in piecework sewing, and Gropper himself, once he had quit school, worked as an errand boy for a clothing store at $5 a week. In spite of the ten-hour working day, Gropper found time to draw, and hungered for further training...
...supreme social chronicler of the age, he was not content merely to perambulate society himself; he recruited an eavesdropper for every dinner table, a spy for every drawing room. In his own way Walpole ran a factory of anecdote and gossip, with duchesses doing piecework and Cabinet ministers tying up parcels and ambassadors acting as delivery boys. But the products themselves were all personally hand-finished; the letters proved as durably elegant as Lamerie silver or Sheraton sideboards...
...first 86-152 prototype crashed on its maiden flight-a disaster that was officially attributed to "sabotage" by Designer Manfred Gerlach (TIME, Sept. 12). While other engineers have been trying to get the bugs out of the BB-152-II, the aircraft plants have sporadically been turning out piecework: incubators, luggage racks, TV antennas. The Politburo's decision that airplane building is a luxury East Germany cannot now afford seems likely to ground for good East German hopes of high-flying grandeur...