Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years shark-mouthed Matyas Rakosi, Hungary's Communist boss, had been casting covetous eyes at MAORT (Magyar Amerikai Olajipari Rt.), the $25 million American-owned Hungarian affiliate of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey). Behind his greed was Moscow pressure: the American concession controlled richer fields than the Soviet-dominated joint company, Hungary's only other oil producer. The Russians had operated MAORT for a short time under Red army occupation, and wanted it back. Last week, Rakosi seized MAORT and in Washington the two U.S. citizen executives from whom he took it summed up the Rakosi expropriation method...
...Paul Ruedemann, and its director and technical adviser, George Bannantine. The two were taken to the forbidding grey stone pile at 60 Andrassy Ut which had once been headquarters for Hungary's branch of Hitler's Gestapo and is now used by the Hungarian version of the Soviet MVD. Three hours later questioning began...
Last week the Voice, finally on its own, was concentrating on a new job very much like its wartime duty: trying to encourage anti-Communist resistance forces and combat Soviet propaganda. Getting started again had taken time. Because of strict loyalty checks, the Voice had spent six months clearing its new employees with the FBI. Because it cannot buy service from the Associated Press or the United Press, the Voice sometimes gets scooped by foreign newspapers as well as by the Soviet radio...
...handicaps. George Allen says: "Luckily, the Moscow press and radio give us an almost exact gauge of the effectiveness of our programs . . . Radio Moscow's efforts to answer the message of Democracy, carried by the Voice, have grown into a hysterical scream during recent weeks, and 18 Soviet stations have been identified as trying to jam us. We are clearly stinging the Kremlin...
...Soviet architects, like all their comrades in art, are expected to toe the line. Last week they stubbed their toes-as the painters and composers had before them. Their difficulty was a familiar one: the line had changed...