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...revolution, devoted himself tirelessly to instructing comrades in "American technique." Soon he became a Soviet citizen, presently returned to tour U. S. industrial centres and buy, for the U. S. S. R. a total of more than $30,000,000 worth of automotive machinery, plans, parts, cars and tractors. Today the main streets of Moscow are just beginning to present a traffic problem, thanks to several thousand little cars closely resembling Ford sedans, all Soviet manufactured under the management of Old Bolshevik Dybets-kicked last week out of his job as Director of the All-Union Motor Car and Tractor...
...heavy-duty trucks per day (the plan calls for 225), but doughty Old Bolshevik Dybets has been unable to fill the bigshots' demands for Soviet luxury cars and last week he was fired with such abruptness that no successor was announced, and the All-Union Motor Car and Tractor Administration was at latest reports without a head...
...such volume that the Soviet Union's offerings were virtually setting the European market prices for these grains. In the Ukraine, "Granary of Russia," Soviet secret police last week swept into Zolochev, hunting for "wreckers." Soon the chief of the regional agricultural department, the chief of a tractor station and a collective farm chairman were lined up and shot-with prospects bright that they will be replaced by members of Stalin's favored Youth...
...White House, President Roosevelt was giving his last press conference before entraining for New Orleans (see p. 15). At the convention tables, the Chamber-men to whom he had refused for the third successive year to send any greeting throbbed with approval as President B. C. Heacock of Caterpillar Tractor Co. told how he settled a sit-down by CIO "brigands." With comfort they listened to a running fire of legal advice on the Wagner Act by John D. Black, member of the Chicago law firm of Silas Hardy Strawn, potent onetime president of the Chamber. Might they fire...
...Five-Year Plan have been satirized in Soviet films showing languid Communist typists squirting perfume over themselves and ogling their Bolshevik bosses-a deliberate exaggeration like all Communist propaganda. Last week Red bosses and Red typists seemed on good behavior, but Ambassador Davies hustled on out to the Kharkov Tractor Plant, thoroughly inspected the entire works, which now send a tractor off the assembly line every five minutes. Some unfortunate jinx caused the first tractor off the line as Mr. Davies approached to refuse to start. "It has been rejected," announced the Bolshevik interpreter, "and it is now sent...