MONTHLY REPORT FOR APRIL 1958

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 1998
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• Publication Date: May 2, 1958
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TO Chief, Industrial Division, ORR
FROM : Chief, Medium Machinery Branch, D/I
SUBJECT: Monthly Report for April 1958
DATE: 2 May 1958
1. Accomplishments.
A. Branch Projects Submitted --
2 April -- ORR Project No. 34.1558, Production of Chemical
Equipment in the USSR was submitted for division
review.
B. Status of Projects --
34.1928 -- European Trade in Machine and Trans ort Equipment,
1950-57. A draft copy of this project has been complete and submitted
for branch review. It is probable that it will be submitted to the
Division in May.
34.1931 -- Production of Chemical Equipment in Czechoslovakia.
A draft copy has been completed and is undergoing Division review. This
project still suffers from the limited amount of data that is available
on the chemical equipment industries of Czechoslovakia. Although it is
doubtful that this report warrants publication as an RR, it may be
possible to recast it as an IM.
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30.1535 -- Industrial Capital Investment in Communist China.
and staff have done some preliminary editing of his project.
The prose is still unnecessarily complicated and certainly not lucid.
Some additional rewriting will be done in the branch. A mor,. serious
problem is developing with regard to substance. More recent information
from Communist China indicates that the ratio between investment in
heavy vs. light industry may not decline to 6-i as suggested in 30.1535,
but may increase over the amounts allocated in the First Five-Year Plan.
We are now looking at the report in light of this information to determine
what substantive changes would be necessary.
34.1930 -- Foundry Production -- A Major Bottleneck in Soviet
Machine Building. The original scope of this report was ambitiously entitled
Problems in Soviet Machinery Building. This proved to have too broad a
scope and the coverage o this project has been reduced to more workable
dimensions. Good data is still very scarce. As shown in the study of
the production of forge-press equipment, the Soviets release very little
data or factual information on a backward branch of industry until
impressive progress has been made. The first draft of this report,
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well underway, has been interrupted temporary because of the recent and
unexpected Soviet NIE requirements placed upon the branch.
34.89+ -- The Determination of Cost and Price in Soviet Machine
Building. Several books in Russian describing methodologies involved in
the costing and pricing of machinery products were published. in Moscow in
late 1957, and are now being carefully examined. It is felt that these
recent books provide a valuable contribution to understanding the
subject and cannot be ignored.
The complexity of Soviet concepts and terminology in the field
of costing and pricing as well as difficulties involved in conveying
these ideas into intelligible English has resulted in the project
requiring more time than originally anticipated.
However, the exact scope of the report is well-defined, and the
substantive material is being penetratingly treated. In suimnary, the
draft of this project is well along although progress is slcw.
C. Other Contributions Submitted --
16 April -- ORR Project No. 30.186+, Estimated Production of
Specific Industries in the Sino-Soviet Bloc, 1957
2 April -- Contributions to OCI Periodic Requirements List,
USSR.
24 April -- Requirements on trends in the engineering industries
of Conummist China.
25 April-- Review of ORR Project No. 42.2036, New Data and
Prospects for Rumanian Foreign Trade.
30 April -- Contributions to OCI Periodic Requirements (PRL)
Far East, 1 June-30 September 1958.
D. Other --
/f 2. Training.
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s attending the intermediate Russian reading
course.
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is continuing a self-study course in -Russian, using
language laboratory in M Building. 11c
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3. Trips.
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! 4. Administration.
21 April -- Revision of FY 1959 project outlines.
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Reading requirements have been revised to represent the interests
of II NS which starts operation on May 4+, 1958.
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