THE NEW MOSCOW
WORLD’S FIFTH CITY. Mr. Anthony - Eden’s visit to Moscow lends interest to the recent progress of a city that is to-day the fifth most populous civic centre in the world. . The population is now 3,630,000. In the last four years the Russian capital has developed rapidly in every direction. Th 6 industries of Moscow now produce evety month 1700 motor-lorries, nearly 400 machine tools, 7000 bicycles, 10,000 watches. The daily output of cotton goods is over 1000 miles, of boots and shoes 100,000 pairs, of soap 233 tons. A great canal is being cut to the Volga to extend its commercial communications. The turnover of the Moscow shops has doubled in four years.
Moscow takes great pride in her underground railway system, begun in 1032, the first line of which is now completed. The narrow platforms of London have been avoided; the Moscow platforms are twice as wide. This has involved bigger tunnels, half as wide again as those at London.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1935, Page 9 (Supplement)
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