Word: trusting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...three mousy women adorns an ad saying, culturally, "To inform the population: The Moscow Clothing Trust sells all-readymade women's dresses of silk, wool and cotton." A woman's stocking ad cries up the virtues of "a new fiber called Kapron," presumably a Soviet nylon. "They mold the leg nicely, wash easily, keep shape and color...
...Mineral Waters Trust announces in an ad that it has just received from the Caucasus some bottled waters "good for health." The Ministry of Commerce has weighing scales available. "Goods can be bought for cash," it notes...
Wine and cognac ads appear infrequently, vodka ads almost never, but the Liquor Trust recently ran an ad saying: "Bring your empty, cognac and wine bottles to the Moscow Liquor Factory...
Because of the nature of the Soviet economy, odd items will crop up in advertisements. "Glass dolls' eyes now being made," the public is told. The Soviet Sculptors' Trust informs collective farm and union centers that it "has ready a sculpture of Lenin by D. P. Schwartz, 2 meters 25 cm. high, made of concrete. Price 3,500 rubles ($875); time of delivery, 2-3 months. For orders, telegraph Moscow Skulpcombinat...
Both the Cornigliano and Terni plants are owned by Finsider (Finanziaria Siderurgica), a government-owned steel trust set up by Mussolini to modernize Italy's steel industry. (It now controls 45% of the industry.) The trust did not do very well with the production of rolled steel: total production last year was only 300,000 tons, barely half the country's requirements. When it reaches capacity in about two years, Cornigliano alone will roll 458,000 tons, and should be able to undersell other Italian-made steel by 25%. Armco will send 60 technicians to Italy to train...