RUSSIA’S DRIVE TO BOOST COAL OUTPUT
(10 a.m.) MOSCOW, Aug. 29. Russia celebrated Miners' Day as a national holiday throughout the Soviet Union for the first time.
All the papers devoted many columns to the • miners' plan to increase the annual output to 250,000,000 tons by 1950, which is 84,000,000 tons more than in 1940. The Fravda declared: “The coal Industry workers face a tremendous task to bring the annual output to 500,000,000 tons within approximately the next three five-year plans.” , 4
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22729, 30 August 1948, Page 5
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