SCORES LETDOWN IN PIG-IRON PRODUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700060422-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 422
• Publication Date: May 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Economic - Iron production
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PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Budapest
DATE
PUBLISHED 8 Feb 1952
LANGUAGE Hungarian
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NO. OF PAGES 1
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SCORES LEROWg IN PIGIR
OH PRODUCTIOH
Failure to stock sufficient iron ore to meet winter production require-
ments, combined with a slackening of work tempo, has caused a serious short-
age in pig-iron production for the first 2 months of 1952. The deficiency is
the more serious because it affects every field of the Hungarian national
economy.
Although the metallurgical industries exceeded the plan by producing 20,7
percent more iron and steel in 1951 than during the preceding year, it is a
far cry from the 398,000 tons of pig iron produced in 1949 to the 1,280,000
tons which the plan calls for by 1954.
The Stalin Vasmu (Stalin Ironworks) are expected, upon completion, to
contribute heavily toward attainment of the 1954 goal; but foundries such as
Ozd and Diosgyor, which are already established and capable of processing hun-
dreds of carloads of iron ore daily, will have to supply the bulk of the
nation's needs through better planning, organization, and more intensive work
competition.
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