Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...other major power. Soviet steel labor is elite labor, with an efficiency twice that of other Soviet workers. A severe drag on Russian steel production is the fact that 95% of Russia's working iron deposits lie west of the Ural's industrial complex, and 85% of its coking-coal reserves lie east of it. Bringing coal and iron together to make steel puts a heavy strain on Russia's inadequate transport system and slows down the growth of the steel industry...
Transport is the overall limiting factor in the economic growth of the U.S.S.R. Russia's resources, especially iron ore and coal, are wide apart (see above). Russia has five main industrial regions: north western European Russia (Moscow, Leningrad, Gorky); the Ukraine (Kiev, Krivoi Rog, Dneprostroi) ; the newer industrial complex just behind the Urals (Sverdlovsk, Magnitogorsk, etc.); the Kuznetsk Basin (Novosibirsk, Stalinsk, etc.); and the scattered mills, mines, army bases and slave-labor camps near the Pacific. Despite a widespread belief in the West that Russia's industrial trend is toward "safety behind the Urals," there is evidence that...
...French have not yet completed their retreat into the Red River delta. Under the guise of "regrouping operations," they will soon abandon Moncay. Already, Moncay's French and pro-French civil population has been evacuated by sea, the Moncay airfield destroyed. The terrain held by the French is complex-a network of dikes, soggy paddy fields and island-like villages fringed with bamboo and banana trees. Inside this area (slightly larger than the Pusan beachhead held by the U.S. in Korea last August) are hidden pockets of Communist troops, in some places at battalion strength...
There are eleven people in "The Three Sisters" with clearly defined characters. By the end of the third act, nine have been shown to be suffering almost unbearable agonies, the tenth is a first-class bitch with a bad inferiority complex, and the eleventh is a happy men. During the fourth act he gets...
RumFs group, which is not opposing higher taxes for business or anybody else, wants a simple emergency income tax on corporations substituted for the complex formulas and "base periods" of an excess profits tax. Says Ruml: "No excess profits tax ever has been devised that will not do more harm than good . . . It is inequitable and inflationary...