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Russia's Race Against Time
Fischer, Louis | August 19, 1931 issue

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The article focuses on the agricultural reconstructing in Soviet Union during 1931. total area planted this spring amounts to 97,032,300 hectares, which is 9.9 per cent more than the area planted in the same period last year. Sowing increases over 1930 equal 7.3 per cent in wheat, 35 per cent in flax, 30.7 per cent in sugar beets, 32.5 per cent in sunflower seeds, 22.8 per cent in hemp, 76.7 per cent in vegetables, and, last because not least, 50.5 per cent in cotton. The Soviet Government would refrain from exporting cotton if it considered only the expanded and unsatisfied textile requirements of the country.

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AGRICULTURE; RECONSTRUCTION (U.S. history, 1865-1877); SOWING; COTTON; EXPORTS; INTERNATIONAL trade; SOVIET Union
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