SOVIET PROJECTS
FIVE-YEAR PLAN
INTERNAL EXPANSION
POWER AND TRANSPORT
LONDON, Dec. 16. Russia is almost ready to initiate a five-year plan, says Reuter's correspondent in Moscow. The principal objectives are: (1) Five million houses to replace those destroyed during the war. (2) New hydro-electric projects, including a power station 25 times more powerful than the Dneiper, which before the war was the largest in Europe. (3) Production of 1000 motor cars and lorries daily from the Molotov works at Gorky. (4) Conversion of thousands of army aircraft,to civilian use and the carriage of at least five times the prewar air freight. (5) Restoration and development of war-shattered ports and the operation of new shipping lines in the Baltic, inland seas and the Far East. (6) The extension of railways and the employment of an _ additional 3,000,000 workers therein. '(7) Campaigns against tuberculosis, cancer, malaria in hospitals in all towns and villages. Moscow resumed television programmes last night with transmissions from the Bolshoi Theatre.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21899, 18 December 1945, Page 4
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