Word: skoda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More than 500 Skoda 30-mm. and 40-mm. antiaircraft guns...
Over the smoke-blackened gate of the giant steelworks in the Czech town of Pilsen, two notable emblems stand side by side. One is the world-renowned trademark of the century-old firm of Skoda, a winged arrow in a circle. The other is the red star of Communism. The famed plant that munitioned Central Europe's armies through two world wars is now the Skoda Lenin Works, a smoking, clanging symbol of a bold Russian ambition: to bind together all the productive skills of the seven East European satellites into one Moscow-managed economic community...
More Rational Ties. Under the revamped plans launched in 1956, the satellite countries were assigned the jobs they could do best. Czechoslovakia, whose giant Skoda works turn out entire sugar mills, oil refineries, and more electric locomotives than any factory in the world, undertook to build machines, tools, heavy electrical equipment. Poland began specializing in coal mining and transport equipment. East Germany set out to concentrate on chemicals, building materials, precision machinery. Hungary was told to concentrate on aluminum processing. Rumania on petroleum production, and Bulgaria, on the sunny Black Sea coast, undertook to become a kind of fourth-class...
When the West was slow with offers of aid, Leftist Touré simply turned to Communist countries. Last week Guinea's warehouses bulged with surplus East German cement, with 200 new Praga and Skoda cars just in from Czechoslovakia, and with the secret cargoes of Russian and Czech transport planes unloaded under guard. Communist money was building a huge new printing plant for Guinea, to be followed by a powerful radio station. Communist Czechs operate Conakry's airport and harbor, and a Communist Pole is Touré's adviser on public works. Even the Red Chinese were...