Show short end of the stick slick the inlo Itu guwinn sinn leaders boast endlessly of their nations material progress and d of f plant plans to overtake and pass tile united states but this progress gress if it exists certainly i filtering down dowil to tile kussian Itus sian masses tile the national industrial Indu Arial Conf eunce hoard board lias bas issued a survey showing the file ho typical worker must put in to buy consumer items in new york and moscow examples in moscow it ta takes keg an hour and 4 minutes to buy 11 a pound of sugar su garin ill now york three minutes in moscow it takes 15 hours to buy a mans malls cotton shirt in ill new york 56 mil minutes lutes in moscow it takes hour licurs to buy a 8 mans wool now new york 23 hours S so it goes till all tile the way down tile list of staple food elot clothing bing and other necessary items tile figures are based on average earnings in manufacturing in austry and the moscow aro are based on oil in inform forin aaion at ion appearing in ill the soviet press tins tina casts nn all interesting light on oil russian cwi iian methods of production and distribution as well its is the philosophy back of the rus russian economic system production is not based on consumer wants und dee de mand anandi q it is based on oil what the hade dih trib ution almost all of which is through state owned stores is non competitive and all the alices pi ices along gitil quantity and quality are established by fiat the consumer aside from the small alite group arrup gets tile the hiliet end of tile alio stick ind newy news ue bew |