ECONOMIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600250140-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 140
• Publication Date: August 29, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY' V KEPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO sROADIASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Hungary DATE OF
INFORMATION 19!+9
SUBJECT Econor c
HOW DATE DIST 4 Aug 1949
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers /
WHERE
PUBLISHED riudapest NO. OF PAGES 2
DATE
PUBLISHED I - 23 Jul 1949
LANGUAGE
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MACHINE PIAFTL. ;PAIL TO FULFILL QUOTAS;
QUARRY PRODUCTION INCRZASES
SHOR2L.OZ CAUSE LAG? -- Szabad Nep, No 169, 23 Jul 49
The State Budding Industry Lending Enterprise d'lippliee the building in-
dustry with the necessary construction equipment. It imports these machines
or obtains them by placing orders in the domestic factories. The import orders
have been filled promptly; but the domestic plants have lagged. The following
are some plants which did not fulfill their quotas:
The Roessemann-Harmatta Machine Factory offerefi as an excuse for not
supplying the ordered convoyers the fact that there was ac shortage of rubber
belts, iron, and ball bearings. The Donath Machine Factory did not deliver
the required power oarth packers because of a lack of materials and skilled
workers. The Poper- onto Crape:A filled another order instead.. The Hungar-
ian Chemical Industry Machin Factc'ry and the Jeno Heroz Machine Factory have
not delivered a single dump cart. The Markus Machine Factory has i,t filled
the order for block and tackle rigs.
%ISTXET TEXTILE MILL ?'RODUCTION LAGS -- Nepezava, No 150, 1 Jul 49
Matyas Rakosi has criticized the production lag of the gistext Textile
Mill. The plant managers have vowed improved production and less waste in
order to meet the :egcirements of the three-year plan.
- Average weekly production of the spinning mill for the first quarter of
the year was 1,060 kilograms per spinning machine. This will be increased to
1.120 kilograms during the second half of the year. Waste will decrease from
1.11 percent to 0.75 percent. Production per spindle per hour will increase
f c n 16.7c rang to 17.5 grams.
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lncr uoe fro: 55,001 to 58.000. Machine breakdown and stoppage at the begta} 4.,
of the year was 12 percent and will. be reduced 6 -7 percent during theseo *
195) 000 carloads.. Production forthelast year of the three-year plan will
Quarry ,production for 1947 was about 8O,OOO carloads. The prewar level
110 MILLION FORINTS FOR QUARRIES --Maur Nemzat, No 161, 14 Jul 49
Production at the end of The Five-Year Plan will be 6 times that of 1947 and
2j times that of the last year of peace.
greatly expanded. divestments in the quarries during the last year of the
three-year plan will be 15,700;000 forints,
Durinc the Five-Year Plan, 11x0 million forinto will be invested for
modernization and development of tha quarries.
Under the Five-Year Plan, quarries will be deralol,ed at four localities:
30 million forinte are to be invested at the dcsjlate Area of Uzea in Zale??egye,
estab:.iohing a quarry capable of producing 40,000 - 45,000 carloads per ;
a new quarry will be constructed at Nogradkovosd, at a cost of 15,000 ei 7
forinte and will have a capacity of 22,000 carloads per year; the Szob quarry
will be expanded to twice its present capacity and will pfoduce 10,000 oar-
t.oads more 'per year; finally, the quarry at Tally will be expanded so that
produo ion will increase by 28,000 carloads annually.
NEbI LIGET-WEIGir CBM.ENT DEPELOPND -- Kis Ujeag, No 155, 7 Jul 49
Endre Bereczh-y, assisted by Jeno Beck, has developed a new type of light-
weight cement. Its use will result in 30 - 35 percent savings in time.
The new cemont is so light that it can be user for roof structures. This
will eliminate the usage of wood, previously ?mpvr:ed, and will affect a
savings in foreign exchange.
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