New Britain herald., 1929-09-27
RUSSIA ONCE MORE
 4 MAJOR CUSTOMER
Trade With U. s. Rapidly h. C2eaSing6 asses Pre- War Mark

CrcaSlng volume.
 Russias plan of economy and in dustrial expansion is being revised ambitiously and the present pro- gram for next year calls for an in crease in industrial output of &3 per cent instead of about 15 per cont as previously planned. Without Amcri- can technical assistance, it is ad- mittcd. this would not have been possible,
 Here are the latest figures on Soviet purchases in the United States, as supplied by the Russian Information Bureau in Washington, for Russian fiscal years:
 1925-26-$4S.5G0.n n0O
 132G-27-$71GS9,0oo 927-2S-$91,239 ,0e0
 First 10 months of present fiscal yaar: $S4,oo0,0Oo forcc&stng pur- chascs of about &1oo.oo0,o0o for the year.
 The pro-war figure was about s25.o0o,00o
 Much of this increase represents healthy internal development for Russia, Two years ago she bought S2,500,ooo worth of American indus trial machinery. In the first 10 months of this year she bought $23.- 2o0.o00 worth. Figures on agrcu- tural machinery for the same period show an increase from $7000, GOO to $@10o0o0o.
 Among the SOvict's recent pur- chasing contracts with American firms have been a s30, ,000, GOO order with the Ford Motor Company for cars and parts in the next four years a $1o,oU0, ,00o order with the Bald win Locomotive works. q large con- tract with the Westinghouse Con- p@ny d deal for 326, 6,on0,o0 worth of equipment from General Electric and something like $1n,oo0. .060 worth of tractors from the Intcrna- ti0nal Harvester and Caterpillar Tractor companies
 Russit is now fourth among for eiEn purchasers of American ma chinory and she is regarded as the worlds largest prospective market for imported machinery and cqrlip- m"nt. Her program calls for capital Investments in industry and power plant construction Of more than $1,- 500, ,ooo,ooa in 19&o along and of SS.- "oo,0oo,oo0 for the period of 1929 B.
 X check of thc facts and flc1lres so"mg to md5c"to that tueta is de- tornined 10 build up her whole ooo- homie structure with American parts.
 She has just bought a clock fac tory from th" Ansonia Clock Com p&ny Of Brooklyn which will Ee moved to Russia 10 manufacture a million alarm clocks, and half million wall clocks year. A plant of the Durber- -EIampdcn Watch Company of Canton, O., will sjmiIar- ly be moved over to make million dollar watches annually.
 The Austin Company, a buildir~ concern in Cleveland, is going 10 build new modnl city for 25.ono persons at Ni2hni-Noygorod in l5 months. which will cost $50, ,0u0, GOO. Nizhni-Noygorod is 10 become the
 
 tor CompHny will build q plant to make 100,ooo cars a year and another factory will turn out 20. 000 tractors. The C0"Vel@nI concern won the con tract for the new city to be built around these two plants after Euro pan bidders had s1id they would re- quire four y"ors for the job
 A C i1t technical assistance contracts which the Soviet has made with about 80 American firms. For instance. Russia plans 10 double her coal production in three years. so her latest tochni- cal assistance contract, made with the Allen 6 Garcia Company. pro Nides for the mGintcnancc of 2N American engineers in Russian coal folds.
 Getting E%p""t Advice
 Other technical assistance con- tracts provide that Ford shall give technical assistance in construction of the aforementioned automobile factory. Du Pont de Ncmours in erecting frrtiIiziug factories. Froyn Engineering Company in designing over score of steel mills and other matallur@ical plants 10 cost about II billion dollars Hugh l.. Cooper 6 'omV"ny in constructing the Dnicp- "f JT 'ro-rlcctric power plant wit At horsepower capacity lar". oSt Enropc-at a cost of S100.- 660,uon,~ stuart, James &. Cooke in rebuilding old coal mines and open ing new ones, Radio Corporation of America in manufacture of radio apparatus and exchange of patents and technical information. General Electric in expansion of the Russian electrical industry, Nitrogen Engi- ncering Company in construction @nl operation of a $1n.o00,60N ammonia fertilizer factory, and the Longacrc Engineering X Construction Co. in q s25,o00,oo0 apartment hounc and public hGihines program for Moscow. Other American concerns will engage in carrying out irriga- tion projects. building baking plants, erecting sewing m%chine factories, dcTclOpinG the Soviet aniliDo indus try, building roads, counHttuctin% fom mlTics and various other enter p9iSos
 \ number of parties of engineers, numbering from thrc" or four to a score or more, have already left for M9Tc0w under these contH@cts
 lnc:acntally, Cf about 1.00o tour ia's wao visited Moscow last year, @cm" 95 per cent were Americans. Noy;co Pl2ns to Pave