AMERICAN ENTERPRISE
FIRST NITROGEN PLANE IN RUSSIA MOSCOW, Dee.2B. The first nitrogen fixation plane in Russia for the manufacture of fertilisers and explosives is to be constructed under the supervision of American engineers. Lewis P. Jones of the Nitrogen Engineering corporation of New York has signed a contract for drifting planes and directing the installation and operating of machinery.
The plant will cost slightly more than 1,000,000 dollars on the most modern American lines. Considerable portion of the machinery will be bought in the United States. Used in conjunction with enormous deposits of potash which the Seviot government has been developing rapidly,, the nitroglen fixation plan will stop one of the greatest gaps in Russia’s military defence. Soon after the beginning of the war the Czar’s army ran short of ammunition. The production of the country fell far short of the needs of an army of millions, and the Allies had to resort to the slow and costly process of shipping in gunpowder to keep Russia in the war as an active combatant.
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Waipa Post, Volume 38, Issue 2269, 16 February 1929, Page 7
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