Word: shisheyev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was also fashion news for the Russian male. One Dmitry F. Shisheyev, purported "factory engineer," turned up on the Moscow radio as a commentator on U.S. wages. Said Shisheyev: "The American worker is too poor to afford a woolen suit...
...last week, the New York Times filled nearly two columns with a letter from Moscow. Signed by one Dmitry Shisheyev, chief engineer in a machine-tool plant, it replied, in good Union Square dialectic, to a Times survey comparing the hours spent by typical Russian and American workers in earning everything from a loaf of bread to a suit (TIME, Dec. 29). Shisheyev had "analyzed" the figures quoted in a Voice of America broadcast; in pooh-poohing them, he showed an uncommonly glib familiarity with U.S. university bulletins and labor statistics...
Raising an almost imperceptible eyebrow (by mentioning that the letter came by prepaid cable), the Times ran Tovarish Shisheyev's dispatch in its news columns. It remained for a Times reader to supply the grain of salt. Wrote Russian-born J. Anthony Marcus, a veteran foreign-trade specialist: "It would not surprise me to learn that the 'chief engineer' had no more to do with the writing and dispatching of the cable than you or I. ... With about 1,600 words in the cable, even at the lowest rate, the cost would have been about $100, close...
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