Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government. Although in every sense an ambassador accredited to the head of a foreign country, he was undiplomatic enough, or brazen enough, to sign a Bolshevik proclamation calling upon the workers and soldiers of European countries to strike and revolt against their governments in the event of a war with Russia...
...Henri then went on to state that before the War owners could produce crude oil on an average of 15 kopeks a pood, after paying 20% taxes on profits, 5 to 45% royalties and higher wages for workmen. Now, he continued, the production of crude oil costs double, despite the confiscation of property, no taxation or royalties, lower wages to workmen and lack of strikes, which hitherto were frequent...
Continued he: "While in all oil fields in the world the production since 1917 has considerably increased, the Soviet have barely attained the Russian pre-War production, and this only thanks to the new Grozny field, which was discovered by the old owners shortly before the War, and which, therefore, only began to yield considerable quantities...
...Deterding says that the Soviet oil industry has barely attained the pre-War level. He does not add that the Soviet authorities took over Russian oil fields five or six years ago with equipment almost completely destroyed by forces with which Deterding is not entirely familiar. Soviet money was used to reconstruct the industry almost from the bottom up to its present level, and this reconstruction required about...
...Here are actual data of pre-War and present conditions of the Soviet oil industry: pre-War crude oil production was 9,230,000 metric tons, while production for the Soviet fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1927, was more than 10,000,000 metric tons; pre-War annual consumption of kerosene in villages was 8 pounds per capita, and last year's consumption was 9.4 pounds per capita; pre-War wages of workers in the Baku fields were 35 rubles per month, while during the year just ended the wages averaged over 75 rubles monthly...