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...Tractor, sensationally publicized symbol of the Five-Year Plan, has been breaking down badly this summer. Thus, even near the industrial centre of Odessa where repairs can be quickly made, 30% of all tractors in the region were reported by the Soviet Press last week "disabled...
...tour of Illinois and Iowa he found an average of 18 horses at field work for every tractor in operation. Half the tractors were idle. Horses and mules brought better prices proportionately than other livestock. More colts were being raised than for several years. Manufacturers of harness reported mounting sales. Purebred Percherons were bringing from $300 for mares to $1,000 for stallions. Medium weight animals (1,400 to 1,500 lb.) were most in demand. Blacksmiths who had become garagemen were becoming blacksmiths again. Low crop prices have made home-grown feeds for horses more economical than fuel...
Experience shows that Russia's new Five-Year Plan factories can be made to produce, if given sufficient time for tuning up. But last week famed Molotov, largest motor car & tractor factory in Europe, had got into a state of "shocking unfulfillment of the plan...
Since Stalin & staff have put so much heart and effort directly into Molotov, last week's official breakdown might be called the first major blow to the prestige of the Five-Year Plan. Much larger than Molotov is Cheliabinsk, the newly-opened "world's largest tractor plant." When it was announced last week that Cheliabinsk "has produced nothing except experimental machines," knowing Russians merely shrugged. At Cheliabinsk such a breakdown was to be expected, at Molotov...
...Stalingrad, the star new Soviet tractor plant,150 tractors are now produced daily. Almost two years passed in tuning up Stalingrad...