Word: voroshilovgrad
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...river transport, and fishing industries were warned to untangle production difficulties or get out. For Soviet bigwigs had discovered that "technical discipline" was not keeping pace with rising production quotas. Pig iron intended for spring steel turned unaccountably into stiff-rail steel. Of 80,000 files turned out at Voroshilovgrad one month, 33,000 were worthless because of faulty tempering. The whole Gorky Automobile Plant was stopped "for some time" while its chief technician tinkered with new production methods...