This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... can see by the output of coal for six months of 1921 as compared with the same period of 1920 (thousands of poods): But it is still very far from normal production (Donetz in 1913--753). The production of iron has fared no better. The total amount of metal required by industry for 1919 was 113 million ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... can see by the output of coal for six months of 1921 as compared with the same period of 1920 (thousands of poods): But it is still very far from normal production (Donetz in 1913--753). The production of iron has fared no better. The total amount of metal required by industry for 1919 was 113 million poods. But only 37 millions could be provided, i.e., about 30 per cent. The actual amount of iron used, however, was only one-half of it, 15 per cent. The reason was--the diminution of productivity, which was no more than 10 or even 5 per cent. in the best factories. The chief work of the metallurgic trust "Gomza" which unified in the hands of the State 614 nationalized concerns (out of the whole number of 1191), was the construction of locomotives and of rolling stock. Only one-fifth or one-seventh of the program of construction was accomplished. If compared with 1914, the productivity of the Maltsev factory, one of the best, was decreasing at the following rate: 1914 1916 1916 1917 1918 1919 100. 56.5 44.7 35.2 12. 7. Attempts were made in 1920 to stop the fall in the productivity of labor, but in 1921 it again resumed its downward course. In the Auerbach Mine in the Urals, e.g., the average output of ore per workman was (in poods): Dec. 1920 Jan. 1921 Feb. 1921 Mar. 1921 234 162 186 132 The production of pig-iron fell in the interval from 1913-1920 from 257,398 thousand poods to 6,133 thousand poods, i.e., to 2.4 per cent. Let us take another important trust of the State: the sugar trust. The decline in production is here characterized by the following figures: 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 Area sown with sug. beet (thous. dessi atines) 697 682 613 539 411 387 180 Output of sugar (million poods).. 105 91 73 56 20 5 6 The...
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