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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...persons, some even Communists, who for one reason or another are known to have a lenient attitude toward the Church. While none of Stalin's policies is ever criticized by Pravda or Izvestia, their unavoidable coverage of basic news had made it clear last week that the recent Communist Party "purge," in which 60% of all local Communist officials in Russia were either discharged or shifted to new posts (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante), is playing into the hands of the Church. In many districts the Communist boss who has just been shifted into a region where...
Paper and Pencils. Another curious major pre-election fact, evident from the Soviet press last week, was that the recent announcement that 145,000,000 ballots have already been printed must have been premature. They are to be printed with the names of nominated candidates and but a small percentage of the nominations have yet been made. Moreover 145,000,000 ballots have not been printed because there is a paper shortage resulting from a lumber shortage so acute that Stalin's official newsorgans were accusing officials of the Timber Commissariat last week of conspiracy to "sabotage the election...
...Demand for steel products during July, August and September showed a gradual decline in volume each month.... Operations for the third quarter as measured by finished product output averaged 73.6% of total capacity, compared with 88.4% in the previous quarter and 63.6% in the third quarter of 1936.... In recent weeks a rather marked falling off in shipments to customers occurred, resulting in an October average to date of approximately 54% of capacity." Next day, despite this warning, U. S. Steel common, which only a few days before had scraped bottom at $51.12 led the whole market upward with...
...than one-half results from new taxes under laws passed by Congress and from a 40% increase in the prices of materials and supplies and fuel which the railroads use. The rest is due to restoration in 1935 of the 10% wage deduction originally made in 1932 and to recent wage agreements with the operating and non-operating unions. . . . The average revenue per ton-mile and per passenger-mile has steadily declined since 1921, until today railroads haul a ton of freight one mile for an average of less than a cent and carry a passenger a mile for less...
Submitting before the recent emphasis on squash as a means of exercise, wrestling, boxing, and fencing will be loss adequately provided for in the new building. However, a large basketball floor which can be divided into halves and a general room for badminton, volley ball, and exercising will be included in addition to the squash courts...