Word: vishniak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foreign News writer and head of the Russian Desk, was asked last July to prepare this major study of the Russian economy, he turned first to TIME'S own extensive files on the subject. They are the repository of every hard fact that Ehlers and his associates, Mark Vishniak and Vera Kovarsky, have been able to glean from their painstaking weekly analysis of Soviet publications, official reports, government directives and statistics, from our correspondents and other sources...
...Communist Central Committee's daily, offer more propaganda than enlightenment Economic publications like Planned Economy, monthlies like Soviet State and Law, periodicals like Culture and Life and the Literary Gazette are more likely to run a Stalin homily than information useful to foreigners. But patience is usually rewarded. Vishniak, for instance, noted one day that Pravda had expanded from four pages to six. The extra two pages, he soon found out, were devoted to a learned controversy over a system of philology founded by the late Nikolai