Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Astrakhan. Pravda issued a pronunciamento: "In 1947, the prewar level of fish output must be exceeded," and published a touching letter to Stalin from the fishery collective workers of caviar-famed Astrakhan, promising to catch hundreds of thousands more ponds of fish than provided by the Five-Year Plan. This was part of a full-blast Soviet campaign to make workers and farmers meet their 1947 quotas ahead of time, "to honor the 30th anniversary of the Great October [Revolution]." For Russia was desperately short of consumer goods and dangerously short of food. Making the best...
Since then, Stalin has become somewhat better known. Last week, all that Pravda and Izvestia printed on the end of Fordzonishko's father was: "A correspondent of Reuters Agency reports from Detroit the death of the well-known owner of automobile plants, Henry Ford...
...Pravda ("Truth"), they learned, prints no crime or disaster stories (the editors think that type of news is unimportant) ; it has no bustling "city room," for the editors and most writers have offices and secretaries of their own; the average reporter's salary is about 1,500 to 2,000 rubles a month ($282 to $376). It takes a staff of 430 editorial workers to get out the four-page paper, but even so Pravda turns a profit for the Communist Party...
...special courtesy, young Cyrus L. Sulzberger of the New York Times got a private tour (Russian correspondents at U.N. had visited his uncle's plant some months ago). He noted that Pravda' s acidulous David Zaslavsky, journalistic gadfly of the Western World, is "an amiable man who looks like anybody's favorite grandfather." On the mass tour, the Associated Press's Wes Gallagher found that Peter Pospelov, Pravda's editorial chief, "looks like a member of a Midwestern legislature." Pravda gets 15,000 letters a month from its readers, only 40 or 50 of them...
...tour ended up in Pravda's paneled, carpeted conference room, a Hollywood version of a Wall Street office. There, over glasses of tea, the U.S. visitors got down to what was on their minds. About those complaints, now - do Pravda's readers ever criticize the paper for its attacks on the Western powers? Replied Editor Pospelov: "Yes - they say we should make them stronger." Who appoints the paper's editors? "The Communist Central Committee." What happens when the Communist Party disapproves of a Pravda article? Replied ace Commentator Boris Izakov: "Nothing. That does not happen very often...