Word: tractors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steel combine is larger than any in Europe. The Ural Freight Car Building Works in Tagil produced 120,000 two-axle cars in 1939-as many as were made elsewhere in all Russia. There have been many conversions: the Tagil Car Works is now producing military vehicles; the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant now makes tanks; factories in Novosibirsk mass-produce military-type skis. The diversity is surprising: the auxiliary capital produces carburetors, armatures, railway equipment, cinema apparatus, tractor parts, tubes, leather goods, foodstuffs...
...Army game, extravagant equipment rentals (paid for by the Government), is being played all over again: a Washington, D.C. contractor rented a $4,200 tractor for $3,907.42 and a truck valued at $425 for $414.34; a Chicago contractor paid $1,023 rent on a $1,400 truck; a New Jersey contractor rented a 1927 dump truck valued...
...Most of this area has been reconquered, and the slightly sour smell of death hovers over it. ... Fields have been chewed by tractor and tank treads and pitted by shellbursts...
...display were 36 75s, converted to anti-tank fire and mounted in armored trucks with tractor treads which could take them nearly anywhere a tank could go (see cut). On tiny "jeeps" and swamp buggies-jeeps with enormous wheels and bus-size tires for mushing through mud and snow-were 18 ordinary anti-tank guns...
...Barring sabotage, Hitler would get most of Russia's electric, hydroelectric and manufacturing plants - 70% of pig iron, steel and rolled steel capacity; 90% of oil refineries; 63% of tractor factories; 85% of machine and machine-tool factories; 90% of chemical, synthetic rubber and tire plants. But Russia's manufacturing plant, like its agricultural resources, is usually hard-pressed to sustain even the longtime poor living standards of Russia...