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Show Great Rush Is Made to Complete Jobs Before Winter Sets In MOSCOW, N'o. L'3. F.v the Associated Asso-ciated Press) MOSCOW todaj is pass-tr.g pass-tr.g through a building boom more active than anything of tho kind the whlto walled city has experienced in sevral generations. Real estate Improvement has been virtually at a standstill since early In the world war. and after the revolution, revolu-tion, which eventually brought the seat of government back to the ancient an-cient capital, Moscow became one of the most crowded cities on the faeo of the earth. . This fall, however, under the Soviet's Sov-iet's new economic policy which permits per-mits private enterprise, including leasts leas-ts on property and buildings for 49 years, the rush to gain concessions by local Investors began, with German, French and oher foreigner also clamoring clam-oring for prlvih ),-" I Store 6oace Is In great demand, due to the stimulus gr. en by the resumption resump-tion of free trade and numerous one-story one-story affairs huc been put up In tho shopping districts. They resemble the stores erected In a boom town In the I nited States. I Kutlfe blocks have been cleared for I apartment houses, with shop space on the ground floor, and thousands of ; men and women usually, more wo-; wo-; men than men have been employed in this work, carried on with great' 'speed to get as much done as possl-j ble before the cold weather begins, when all out-door tasks of this kind j HI U6t : be ii ntil kprln. |