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...State has plowed definitely through a "famine winter." Last week Stalin's smile translated itself into prompt action. More than 100,000 thoroughly punished peasants were released from their harsh exile, sent back on joyously clattering trains to help till the 225,000,000 Soviet acres thus far sown. Best of all, from the peasant's standpoint. Dictator Stalin created an All-Union Procuratorial Department to curb and supervise his strong-arm agents: the Gay-Pay-Oo, the militia, the criminal police...
Originally the Plan called for turning 17% of the nation's sown area into "collective farms." These were to be mechanized with tractors and other farm machinery. Soon the State found it possible to drive peasants into collectives much faster than had been planned. This was done. Never stopping to reflect that true collectivization demands simultaneous mechanization, the State has turned not 17% but 80% of Russia's sown area into so-called collectives. For the past two years these would-be "grain factories" have been clamoring in vain for tractors and other equipment which the State could...
...important of the three. Better grades at Harvard mean, not that standards have fallen, but that the student is becoming more mature and more interested in his work. If the present conditions continue there is good reason to expect that colleges will become less and less fields to be sown with wild oats, and more the institutions of higher education which the proper attitude of students should permit them...
...Autumn grain sowing throughout the Soviet Union is "highly unsatisfactory," with only 7,000,000 acres sown this year as compared to 15,000,000 last year...
Paramount fact: more than two thirds of the whole sown area of the Soviet Union is not only not in the hands of kulak households, but it is not even in the hands of poor peasant households. This vast and vital two thirds now consists of: 1) State farms or 2) collective farms worked cooperatively by groups of peasants under State supervision...