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Albert Kahn, Inc. will be represented in the Soviet by Moritz Kahn, brother of Albert, who lately negotiated the agreement. In Moscow, he was handling a somewhat similar though comparatively minute project, the construction of a $30,000,000 tractor plant at Stalingrad (TIME, May 20), which Albert Kahn, Inc., completed...
Significance. Like the city of Austin-grad (TIME, Sept. 16) now being built as a focal point for the Soviet Automobile industry by Cleveland's engineering Austin Co.; like the Kahn tractor factory at Stalingrad, the new Kahn enterprise exhibits Soviet enthusiasm for U. S. industrial and architectural methods. Soviet engineers in the next five years will visit the U. S. to study U. S. mechanical processes, to become devotees in the steely U. S. temples of Albert Kahn...
...Manhattan, Kans., Nebraska's Cornhuskers, minus Clair Sloan, their backfield tractor, won the Big Six Conference title from Kansas Aggies...
Soon 1,000 Cologne craftsmen will find jobs in the first Ford manufacturing plant to be set up in Europe outside of the Fordson tractor plant at Cork, Ireland. Many a continental country has Ford assembly plants. These will now be supplied with parts from Cologne, a shorter haul than from Detroit...
...less than 15 months. In compliment to your company we shall probably call the city Austingrad." Austingrad will be the Detroit of Red Russia. Primarily it is intended as the Soviet focus of motor car manufacture, and $20,000,000 of the contract will be spent on car and tractor plants built for the latest type of straight line mass production. Three hundred motor vehicles per day will represent not peak but conservative average production. From Austingrad skilled Communist service station men will go out to spread through pastoral Russia the gospel of mechanics and motive power...