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First act of the reshuffled Central Committee was an order to the State Planning Commission for a new 15-year plan "to surpass the most advanced capitalist countries in per capita production of iron, steel, fuel, electric machines and consumers' goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bugs | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

Buckley, the flashiest Feslerman, always seems to be right at the top when it comes to scoring points, but he will have to sink quite a few baskets if he is going to equal or surpass his feat of trailing only Broberg and Bennett last year for top scoring honors in the Eastern Intercollegiate League...

Author: By A. EDWARD Rowes, | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/4/1941 | See Source »

...plain, unvarnished days of the Russian Revolution, the Chekists used to keep batteries of automobile engines constantly running to drown out the human and mechanical sounds from the execution cellars. As Russia sought to "catch up with and surpass capitalist technology," less garish techniques were found for silencing the human voice. Few of the men & women who might tell how Communism really works ever escaped to tell. The handful who did* were defeated by a twofold irony: 1) they were suspect as Communists, doubly suspect as ex-Communists; 2) the things of which they tried to warn the world were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Collapse | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...proposal calls for the first ship to leave the ways within twelve months, the last a year later. If it goes through on schedule, it will far surpass Hog Island's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Ugly Ducklings | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

There is no doubt that if the war potential of North America is organized and thrown into the scale, the combined strength of America and the British Empire can certainly surpass and outlast that of Germany and her satellites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: We Can Take It | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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