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Speculators & Other People. With production still low and demand growing, the Soviets had spiraled into economic trouble similar in some ways to capitalist inflationary difficulties. The ruble, officially valued at 20 U.S. cents, was worth no more than three in actual buying power. Illegal speculation by bureaucrats, collective-farm bosses...
Cast into sudden limelight by Soviet Russia's 10 to 1 deflation of the ruble, tonight's Law School Forum will ask "What Shall We Do About The High Cost of Living?" Scheduled for Rindge Tech Auditorium at 8 o'clock, the Forum will feature Senator Homer Capehart (R-Ind...
It must be comforting to Washington officialdom to discover that Russia is no more immune from the ravages of inflation than are the "decadent democracies. Evidently a considerable number of Russians are not above turning a quick ruble by somewhat questionable methods. Evidently some Russians rather fancy the idea of...
The official announcement declared that this "last sacrifice" was aimed at speculators who have been accumulating great amounts of money at the expense of the population. Speculators, however, are not the only ones who will suffer. Hit by the compulsory exchange of old rubles for new, will be those who...
Poem on Stalin. Khachaturian has served his state well, and has been well served by it. Among his compositions is a Poem on Stalin. His pretty wife, Nina V. Makarova, who was a student of Miaskovsky's too, has written A Cantata for Molotov. She is working on an...