USSR METALLURGICAL INDUSTRY PRODUCES CONSUMER GOODS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 84
• Publication Date: May 5, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONP'IDENPIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
DATE OF
SUBJECT Economic - Metallurgy, consumer goods INFORMATION 1952-1953
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 13 Aug-17 Oct 1953
LANGUAGE Russian
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DATE DIST. 6'11741 1954
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
USSR METALLURGICAL INDUSTRY PRODUCES CONSUMER GOODS
[Most reports on the progress of the Soviet consumer goods program
have been confined to the metropolitan dailies.
Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources.]
USSR consumer goods output in metallurgical -1-ants has increased by 15 per-
cent from January to September 1953. The production of enamelware, copperware,
aluminum utensils, nickeled brass coffeepots and teapots, stainless-steel knives
and forks, beds, and other hardware is on a steady rise. Over 100 different types
of consumer items are now being produced by USSR metallurgical plants.(1)
The !Dnsimter goods program of the Southern Ural Metallurgical Plants is
praiseworthy. The Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant is manufacturing 42 percent
more nickel-plated spring beds than in 1952. The efforts of the Magnitogorsk
Metallurgical Combine are also laudable.(2)
Nickel-plated beds are being manufactured by the Moscow Pipe Rolling Plant
in its newly created consumer goods shop.(3)
The consumer goods shop of the Most w Rlektrostal' Metallurgical Plant has
overfulfilled its September .L9j3 norm by :1,000 stainless-steel knives, forks, and
spoons.(4)
a new sheet rolling plant on the road between T)nepropetrovsk and Novo-
Moskovsk, the 18-percent-mechanized consumer goods shop manufactures galvanized
pails, vats, pans,-children's bathtubs, and other itema.(5)
The Tallin Pioner Foundry pledged to increase consumer goods production
initiated in 1952. This foundry has been consistently overfulfilling its out-
put norms. It manufactures enameled pots and frying pans of all sizes.(6)
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The Nizhne-Tagil'sk Metallurgical Plant is Planning a new dish galvanization
shoe; the Chnsovoy Metallurgical Plant is organizing the production f
anu .they hardward from hea
vy sheet tailings o shovels
special shop for the manufacture of
; the Teplogorsk Plant is planning a
Metallurgical Plant is produci cast-iron enameled tubs; and the Verkhe4Assetsk
ehoP.(7) ng metal tubs, pails, and tiles in its consumer goods
The Zlatoust Metallurgical Plant consumer goods shop is producing 13 percent
more
ivVes consumer goods than in 1952. and forks.(8) The shop is manufacturing stainless-steel spoons,
The NovJsibirsk Metallurgical Plant is _ging its 1
is estimated that over 10 million rubles
end of 1953. Other Novosibirsk worth of dishes will be ddiah uced It
plants have initiated the manufactureofbed,,the
furniture, toys, and haberdashery. Novos.birsk metallurgical and machine plants
are Planning an output of 51 million rubles' worth of goods in 1953.(9)
SOURCES
1. Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 17 Oct 53
2. Moscow, Pravda, 14 Aug 53
3? MosCOw, Moskovskiy Komsomolets, 22 Sep 53
4. Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 10 Oct 53
5. Moscow, Trud, 19 Sep 53
6. Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniva, 8 Sep 53
7. Moscow, Izvestiya, 18 Aug 53
8. Sovetskaya Estoniya, 16 Aug 53
9. Pravda, 13 Aug 53
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