Foreign News: Molotov & Cheliabinsk

Experience shows that Russia's new Five-Year Plan factories can be made to produce, if given sufficient time for tuning up. But last week famed Molotov, largest motor car & tractor factory in Europe, had got into a state of "shocking unfulfillment of the plan."

Opened Jan. 1 and named after the Premier of the Soviet Union, mammoth Molotov was given until April 1 to tune up. When the tuning progressed slowly Dictator Josef Stalin sent black-eyed Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, Minister of Heavy Industry, rushing out to Molotov with what amounted to powers of life &...

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