ECONOMIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600250846-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 846
• Publication Date: October 3, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY aingary
SUBJECT Economic
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PUBLISHED Bally newspaper
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INFORMATION 1949
DATE DIST. 3 Oct 1949
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Plan eetimates for the first 6 months of 1949 :ia,va been exceeded in industry,
cgrizu].tcr?, snnicationc, and investments.
industry
Plan estimates for industrial production for the first 6 months of 19149 have
been ft'-Tilled bZ,103.5 percent. This is 27.1 percent hLgher tban fca? the correspc+n--
ing perl.od of 1948. The following table shows the increase in production by industry
as ccanpared with the 1948 period. (in percent)
Mining Fluq 10.5
Metallurgy 15.7
Irm and metal industry 20.8
Machine manufacturing 29.2
Electric pave-
Building and glass materials ^ 26.2
Wood industry 24.3
Leather industry ^ 16.7
Textile industry " 14.7
Clothing industry " 51.6
Paper industry 61.6
Food industry 26.9
Chemical industry 59.8
Multigraphing industry " 45.6
The following table inj'icates fulfillment of
of 194q. (in percent)
Idiniiig
Metallurgy
Iron and metal industry
Machine nenufecturtng
Electric per
106.2
105.4
1014.7
100.0
163.0
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Building and glass uateriala 108.5
Wood industry 101.9
Leather industry 92.1
Textile industry 08.1
Clothing industry 99.3
raper industry 108.2
Food industry 110.6
Multigraphing, industry 107.8
th
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of 1949, the total number of workers in the manufacturing --Q
industries -Q in the
state and local building enterprises increased by 100,000. Of this, 90,000 w ?e
laborers and 10,000 were white-collar workers. In the building industry along
the t crease was 50,000. Iron and machine industry workers increased by 16,o o.
The average real wage increased by 2D.2 percent and the cost of living
decreased by 14 percent for the same Ter nd.
Increase in productivity of labor lagged behind plan estimates. Iaat year,
for the cmcx"rponding period, it increased 20.7 percent, while this year, it
increased by c,nly 8 , 5 percent,.
Plan eotimates for planting have. been ?'ulfiliad. The sown area for wheat
exceeded th,t of last year by 7 percent, pear, 51 percent, sunflowers 84 percent,
aid for fiterous plants 91 percent. The total sown area increased by more than
80,000 cadastral yokes, and only 6.3 percent of last ye.r'i fellow gron:u remained
fallow this year. Plan estimates for the establishment of machine-tractor station
d:urr.ng the third year of the t'"'ae-y~r plan have already been fulfilled 87 farcent.
The-..,a were 206 nachine-tractor stations establishes as of 30 June 1949.
As compared to the first 6 months of 19148, froigh,; shi2ments by railroads
increased by 12.4 percent during the first 6 months of 1949 and the number of
passengers carried increased by 4.2 percent.
Investments for the first 6 months of 1949 greatly exceeded those of the
corresponding.peried of 1948. Average monthly investments ex--eeded those of the
five-month plan by 44 percent and i.hooe of the first year of the three-year plan
by 120 percent. Investments lagged in construction work and -sere highest in com-
munlcationa and industry. Total'estimated investments of 4;200,000,000 farints
were exceeded by ore billion forint.a.
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