Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AUGUSTA, Ga., April 20--President Eisenhower, striving to smash a deadlock, has appealed to Soviet Premier Khrushchev for a quick ban on nuclear weapons tests below 30 miles in the atmosphere...
Tass scornfully advised Soviet city dwellers, who often live three and four or more to a room, that nothing so luxurious could possibly be "typical" or, for that matter, be bought for a mere $13,000. Then Tass's editors showed what they really thought of the splitnik: "There is no more truth in showing this as the typical home of the American worker than, say, in showing the Taj Mahal as the typical home of a Bombay textile worker or Buckingham Palace as the typical home of the English miner." Furthermore, added Tass, with its mind on what...
...adoption of western economic theories is causing revolutionary changes in Russian thinking and may bring the Soviet people substantial economic improvement, Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economy, reported recently...
Leontief returned in late February from a three-week visit to the Soviet Union where he found that many theories he had helped to develop here are being put into practice...
...first hint of a change in Soviet thinking was Khrushchev's slash in funds for hydroelectric plants last August. According to western economic theories, the maintenance cost of such plants makes them uneconomical as a power source...