Foreign News: Planic Rush

In their hurry to finish up everything as fast as possible, Russians have worked themselves into a state of five-year-planic. Two months ago Joseph Stalin sent his hard-boiled henchman, Comrade Lazar Kaganovitch, to tell the frenzied subway builders of Moscow that they were going too fast. "I am displeased with so much rush work!" roared Comrade Kaganovitch. "Also Comrade Stalin is displeased. Take things slower and do everything well!"

Not even this order from the Kremlin could check Moscow's subway planic. The original plan demanded that last week the first train should run over...

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