Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...costs unless the frankly artificial ruble-dollar rate in Moscow be accepted. Last week the disputants never got around to working out the price of Soviet aluminum in dollars & cents, but whatever it costs, the Government is both buyer & seller, producer & consumer under the Soviet system. As the Steel Plant is regarded as "military," Mr. Davies was shown it only from a distance, and in all plants visited the "secret military section" was not shown. Next day, a Soviet "rest day," Mr. Davies saw open hearth furnaces at the Karl Liebknicht Steel Tube Plant, visited Lant Hospital...
...Year Plan have been satirized in Soviet films showing languid Communist typists squirting perfume over themselves and ogling their Bolshevik bosses-a deliberate exaggeration like all Communist propaganda. Last week Red bosses and Red typists seemed on good behavior, but Ambassador Davies hustled on out to the Kharkov Tractor Plant, thoroughly inspected the entire works, which now send a tractor off the assembly line every five minutes. Some unfortunate jinx caused the first tractor off the line as Mr. Davies approached to refuse to start. "It has been rejected," announced the Bolshevik interpreter, "and it is now sent to specialists...
...this part of Russia comrades have been boasting for so many years about the boons of electricity under Communism as compared to its curses under Capitalism that they are ready primed to tell any visitor where he gets off. Manager Mirohnikov of the excellently functioning Dnepropetrovsk Aluminum Plant bustled up at once to the U. S. Ambassador and crowed: "In your country the Mellon interests are responsible for the restricted use of aluminum because they fix the price too high. Such under Socialism would not be tolerated...
...were rolling off the production line last week and the U. S. correspondents were shown no trace of the "sabotage and wrecking by Trotskyists" attributed by the Old Bolsheviks trial to Rostov. Everything was going beautifully except that neither the First nor Second Five-Year Plan has yet shown Plant Manager Kartsashev how to deal with snow. In Rostov is now the largest theatre in Soviet Russia, typical of the diffusion of entertainment to the masses in which Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini are at one with the principles of President Roosevelt's WPA theatres. Cried the Ambassador, "Magnificent...
...Crosse last month the company held a jamboree in celebration of the opening of the fifth addition to the plant, the 25th anniversary of its entrance into the manufacture of heating equipment and the 50th anniversary of its founding as an obscure plumbing shop by James A. Trane. Plumber Trane's son Reuben went to the University of Wisconsin where he was captain of the crew. Not long after he graduated in 1910, his father decided to incorporate as a manufacturer of heating and plumbing supplies, made Son Reuben president, the job he has held ever since...