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...that grew his characteristically audacious agrogorod plan, a scheme by which scores of small farm and village communities could be amalgamated into large agricultural towns and thus more easily supervised by the police. In effect, farm workers, like factory workers, would become a city proletariat, radiating out to tractor stations each day and returning to the towns each night. When the peasant rebelled in the only way he could, by working inefficiently. Khrushchev cracked down. Stalin rewarded him by putting him on the Presidium of the party and in 1952 making him one of the eight secretaries of the reformed...
...machine-tool industry was criticized for using obsolete methods and being behind production in electric motors, steam engines, metal-cutting lathes, chemical, textile and rolling mill equipment, and most particularly in freight cars, self-propelled grain combines, tractor cultivators and threshing machines...
...International Harvester, a key fortress of the Red-led Farm Equipment-United Electrical Workers union has been the Rock Island (Ill.) Local 109, with more than 3,000 workers employed at the Farmall tractor works. Two years ago, Local 109 leaders had such a firm grip on the rank and file that the C.I.O. United Auto Workers withdrew an application for an NLRB election for fear of being trounced. Last week the U.A.W. went into a second NLRB election with no intention of quitting...
Rusty Clips. After years of servile writing, Soviet authors are groping for a new approach to literature. The party would have them go back to "socialist realism" (boy loves tractor), but the writers know how barren this field has become...
Salvo after salvo of blank shots sounded from the huge tanks and tractor-drawn howitzers clanking over ancient Peking's streets. Thousands of marching troops shouted "Liberate Formosa!" Jets and bombers speckled the sky. White "peace" doves fluttered above the heads of half a million workers, who held high huge portraits of Mao Tse-tung, Malenkov, Lenin, Stalin, Marx, Engels...