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...confirmed cases of illicit trafficking of HEU in the past 20 years have involved employees siphoning off material and attempting to sell it on the black market - such as the 1992 arrest of a Russian engineer caught trying to sell 3.3 lbs. (1.5 kg) of HEU at the Podolsk train station. All the cases involved minimal amounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rescuing a Potential Nuke from the Chile Quake | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...Marxism's planners pressed the "on" button. Immediately factories began competing to see who could turn out more sewing machines faster. Result: Russian seamstresses are awash in a sea of treadles and bobbins. "We have more than 150,000 machines accumulated here," complained a worker at the Podolsk Sewing Machine Factory, "and still we are making thousands of them every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Sewing Machines & Spontaneity | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

...Singer Manufacturing Co. in Man hattan last week stepped President Sir Douglas Alexander, 81. The British-born president had bad news. The company's big sewing machine factory at Wittenberg, in the Russian zone of Germany, had been "evacuated" by the Russians, lock, stock & shuttle, to Podolsk, U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Sewed Up | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...able to buyenough sewing machine facilities in the British zone to make up for those taken by thee Russians. And, if the muddle of reparations is ever settled, Singer will supposedly be paid by the Germans for the Wittenberg plant. But Singer is not sanguine about collecting. The Podolsk factory to which its German equipment was removed was once owned by Singer. After the Revolution in 1917, the the Soviets seized it, later agreed to pay for it. So far, Singer has not received a cent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Sewed Up | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Last week practically all of Russia's high air command was wiped out in a single crash near Podolsk 20 mi. south of Moscow. Where they were going, whence they came, what caused the crash, remained a Kremlin secret. But next day in the City Hall in downtown Moscow the bodies lay in state: Peter Baranov, Vice Commissar for Heavy Industries in charge of Aviation; Abram Goltsman, Chief of Civil Aviation; his assistant, A. Petrov; Valentine Zarzar, former Vice Chief of Civil Aviation and now Chief of the Aviation Section of the State Planning Commission; O. Gobonov, director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Death in Podolsk | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

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