Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house detective, with broad authority to pry into all ECA activities both at home & abroad. Besides the routine task of keeping expenditures in line with appropriations, his investigators will follow through on ECA shipments, make sure they are not diverted to Europe's black markets or resold to Russian satellites. Reports on his continuous "internal audit" will go directly to Administrator Hoffman...
...Russian major also hoped to climax a section on 17 of the world's greatest political thinkers with a contrast between "Socialist Structure and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat" and "The Unbalanced Structure of Capitalism." Protested the Englishman: "Then I think it's hardly worth putting Jefferson in at all ... in this one-sided view of history." The Russian's feelings were hurt; 83% of the men to be studied, he said, "represent theories thoroughly unacceptable to the Soviet Union." But he finally backed down and settled for a big section on "Countries with a New Democracy...
...Russians, too, probably have supersonic airplanes. According to the London Daily Mail last week, the U.S.S.R. has developed a model with "a top speed approaching 760 m.p.h." The Daily Mail attributed Russian progress to 50 Rolls-Royce Nene jet engines which Britain sold them about a year...
Blowup. The current issue of Aviation Week contains what it claims is a picture of the speedy Russian plane itself (see cut). The drawing was made from a blown-up motion picture film smuggled from behind the Iron Curtain. The original photographs, the magazine says, were taken with a telescopic lens while the plane was being tested, and "arrived in this country by a circuitous process...
...Trained observers," says Aviation Week, "have been reporting rumors for months that a Russian jet plane has flown faster than sound." Its estimated speed: 745 m.p.h. "The plane can now be identified as the Russian design of the DFS 346, a plane begun by the Germans . . . The Germans never finished the DFS 346, and it, along with its engineers, presumably went into Russian possession...