(SANITIZED)ROMANIAN INDUSTRIES(SANITIZED)

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General
This industrial complex, before the nationalization of industries,
,onsisted of the following-
A factory for locomotives, railroad cars, and engines.
factory for manufacture of IWAMUES PNN" . -t v
A foundry.
After nationalization, the complex was divided into two factories
as follows:
1) 1123 AUGUST" Factory, including the factory for locomotives,
railroad cars, and engines, and the foundry.
2) "REPUBLICI" Factory, consisting only of the factory for
production of "TEMANNESMANN" 5.
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Railroad siding
it the present time the unit is connected with the TITAN Station by
a railroad siding. A second siding was built in 1950 on the south side to
connect the factory with the CATELU Station I I but it is aot
yet in operation.
Guard service and security
the factory is surrounded by a wall about 2 meters high; along the other
sides there is a picket fence. In the spring of 1951 the civilian guards
were replaced by army troops.
On DE 1VIUNCI Boulevard and along the ADUDIiSTI CIOPLEA
Antiaircraft defense of the factory
There are eight antiaircraft guns at, the northwest and southeast corners
of the factory
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I. '123 AIJGUST'l Factory SECURITY MFORMATION
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various buildings and installations)
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1) Administration: 3-story building with basement, about 25 by 15 meters.
In the basement:
Files of originals of plans and drawings.
Photographic and photoengraving department.
First floor:
Technological service for calculation of materials.
Various offices.
Telephone switchboard.
Second floor:
Min administration.
Technical administration.
Sales service.
'Third floor:
Designing and drafting department.
Production costs service.
2) Area in which athletic and cultural installations will be built.
' `Tork is scheduled to begin in the spring of 1952. It will
consist of the following:
:Motion picture theater.
Gymnasium.
5) Underground fuel dump of undetermined capacity.
Masonry building 190 by 80 meters, housing the following units:
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a) Heavy forge unit: Gecupies an area 80 by 30 meters. It has
the following installations:
1 large forge capable of handling pieces of iron
weighing 6,000 kilograms.
5 forges with dimensions progressively decreasing in relation
to the one mentioned above. Two were installed in 1951.
- 10-12 hammers of varying power.
- 2 hammers installed in 1951. One is a "BS" type of ',000
kilograms; the other is a German "EUMUCO" type of 4,500 kilograms.
The heavier hammer is used for forging engine shafts.
- A press for stamping parts is being installed.
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b) WpoonAM 10 meters long permitting the passage of railroad cars
-tr ,~5fier - ei from the depot for forging pieces (4) to the first
(TRAI~TSBORDOR) .
Painting unit: Occupies an area 80 by 30 meters. All. material
produced by the factory requiring painting is painted there.
d) Carpentry shop: Occupies an area the same size as the above unit.
Performs all woodworking operations (for example, flooring and roofing
of railroad cars).
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e) _0 meters wide: A part of this area is used for
storage of lubricants for the machinery.
f) Unit for the manufacture of spring shock absorbers and leaf
springs for railroad cars. Occupies an area 80 by 40 meters. A forge
and various unidentified machinery are installed there".
g) Equipment manufacturing, unit.: Occupies an area similar to that
of the above nit. It has numerous lathes, drills, and among other
tv_ngs, a "copying" machine ("de copist") of Russian make, for the
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reproduction of pieces of equipment. This last machine, however, does
not operate with sufficient accuracy.
7) Shop for the repair and maintenance of motor vehicles belo ..,ring
to the factory. Masonry building behind the previously mentioned building,
about 40 by 8 meters. The motor vehicles are parked in the area opposite the shop.
?=,) ?orkers' administration office: Handles exclusively the computation O f
working hours of the workers and payment of their wages. Located in a
two-story building 12 by 6 meters.
9) Masonry building 20 by 12 meters: This was built before the war;
because of its height it gives the appearance of a theater.
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lecture hall and library.
10) Shop for testing engines: Equipped with about 10 testing benches
for engines. L-shaped masonry building 80 by 25 meters, and 17 meters wide.
11) Projected building: The construction is planned for 1952. It will
house a heavy machinery unit.
12) Ovens for drying wood: Masonry building 100 by 25 meters. The
wood is dried for the carpentry shop.
13) About 10 wooden sheds of German type used for storage of general
materials, such as cement, glass, etc.
14) Lumber depot in the open.
15) Enterprise mess: Masonry building about 100 by 20 meters.
16) Main building of the factory: 476.7 meters long and 110 \meters wide.
It is subdivided into various units; for each one of these there is a small
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one-story building rising above the roof, housing the offices. The
following units are located in the main building:
a) Licht machinery unit: Occupies an area 100 by 70 meters.
Manufactures and processes light materials and some accessories for
products manufactured in the following unit.
b) Heavy machinery unit: Has the same dimensions as the
preceding unit. Work:
- Processing and finishing of castings.
- Blocks,
r, pistons, parts for boilers, wheels for
railroad cars, transmission wheels, repairs and general overhauls
of locomotives.
- Complete drilling equipment for the oil industry.
c) Passage 8 meters wide.
d) Electric transformer station and plant for furnishing steam
under pressure and compressed air. Receives current from the city
network and transforms it to current of 280-320 volts. Equipment:
- Two groups of two steam boilers each, which function alternately.
- Two compressors for air.
The unit provides steam under pressure and compressed air to the
various units of the "23 AUGUST" Factory, including the foundry.
e) Underground depot for oil used by the transformer station and
towers for cooling of water. Occupies an area of 100 by 15 meters..
The depot consists of three unddrground cylindrical tanks of
undetermined capacity.
f) Boiler unit for processing of heavy sheet-metal. Occu-)ies an
area 100 by 35 meters. The following products are manufactured:
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Steam boilers of various types.
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Pressure tanks for metallurgical factories.
V -ts
for castings,
- Other products of heavy sheet-metal.
Boiler unit under construction; the work is nearing completion.
The construction work has reached the roof. The unit will begin
activity on l January 1952. Materials of light sheet-metal will
be manufactured. Area: 100 by 32.7 meters.
h) Depot for sheet metals, from 1 to 30 millimeters in thickness.
Occupies an area 100 by 22 meters.
i) Main material warehouse. All material used and consumed in the
factory is administered by this warehouse. Occupies an area 100 by 35 meters.
1) Maintenance unit for machinery and equipment of the factory.
This is a modestly equipped workshop which provides for maintenance,
minor repairs, and replacements of parts on machines of the factory.
Occupies an area 100 by 32 meters.
m) Unit for assembly and finishing of iesel rai car;,
except for painting, which is done by the painting unit. Nhen the unit
is not occupied with the assembly of these cars, it assembles engines
and electric cranes. O C CV r Q es a 0 c t I-e 6 ( 10 0 x 3 2 vi e 't-e Fs ,
n) Galvanizing and chromium-plating unit. Occupies to area
100 by 100 meters.
o) Unit for assembly of the wooden part of freight cars and
finishing of freight cars and the chassis and framework of juLtx
rail diesel cars. Occupies mutcmnm an area 100 by 40 meters.
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p) Unit for assembly of chassis and metal#re framework of
freight cars. Occupies an area the same size as the preceding wait.
q) Unit for protection of workers a_aainst accidents. Stores
protective material for issue to the workers, such as leather and cloth
gloves, rubber shoes and gloves, smoked glasses for welders (with
electricity and oxygen)., etc. Occupies an area 100 by 10 meters.
17) Depot for L-shaped, I-shaped, and round iron beams used in the light
machinery and heavy machinery units.
10) Building outside the factory enclosure, housing 0 dispensary,
store, and office for the Rumanian Communist Party.
19) Foundry. Masonry building 400 by 96 meters. An undetermined
number of furnaces are installed. The following furnaces were installed
in the spring of 1951:
- one 3-ton electric furnace for steel, of 1:ussian make.
one 1.5-ton electric furnace for steel, repaired, of German make.
- four German "SIEMENS" electric furnaces, for steel, iron, and
cast iron, larger than the two above mentioned.
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20) IsModw-66-71shi n I jjjjWaW and remelting furnaces, adjacent to
the above building.. It is nearing completion. The construction was begun
in 1950 and will be completed early in 1952. Installation of the following
equipment has begun: three machines for polishing castings from the foundry;
remelting furnaces.
21) Under ground fuel depot. Consists of three underground tanks, of
undetermined capacity, for supplying oil for the engines installed is the foundry.
rotor vehicles: The factory has 30 trucks of v_~rying capacity.
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Transfer tables and internal railroad sidings
Internal organization
The factory is under the jurisdiction of the 111.inistry of Light metal
The rails for three transfer tables ("transbordor") run longitudinally
to the buildings of the factory and parallel to one another. These transfer
track
tables lift the railroad cars and transfer them from one miWrAw to another.
The transfer tables are indicated by the Roman numerals I, II, and III.
No III is used jointly by the foundry and the "REFUBLICI" Factory. Mach unit
of the factory is provided with a standard-gauge railroad siding running as
far as the WE track of the transfer tables.
Industry.
Director general: TEODORESCU, Joan,
Assistant director: FARKAS,I .
Technical director: Engineer hICULA.
Chief of personnel: CAPITANESCU, Joan. In October 1951 he replaced a
certain BOTEA, Joa.n,
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Chief of "Cadres" Office (political office of the factory): f70UIN
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In September 1951 he replaced a certain
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- -Engineer RISESCU, Georgie, chief planning engineer, serving -ith
Engineer POP", Nikola, serving with the technical administration.
- Mechanical Construction Engineer BALANESCU, Joan, chief engineer of
the designing unit for metal constructions.
- Construction Engineer GEORGESCU, Dragos, serving with the designing
unit for building construction.
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Engineer HOLBAN, Heinrich, German, serving with the designing unit
for engine construction.
- Electrotechnicsl Engineer FINICA, serving with the designing unit for
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plans of electrical installations for cranes and
- Engineer BOBEK, Joseph, chief engineer of the heavy and light
machinery unit.
- Electrotechnical Engineer GAVRILESCU, employed in work on the
electrotechnical installations.
- Engineer DRUKER, Adolf
- Kngineer CIOBANU, first engineer of the foundry.
- Chemical Engineer SAVARIAN, serving in the foundry, assigned to
watching the castings.
- Chemical Engineers SINA, Ilie, and GR,IGORESCU, Joan, assistants of
the above engineer. They alternate on the work shifts.
,porkers: c about 12,600, including 3,000-4,000 women. 10,000 are
employed in. the factory and 2,600 in the foundry.
Work shifts: three, of 8 hours each.
Telephone number: 1.00.10.
Production
Railroad Equipment
Rail diesel cars
There is no serial production; rail diesel cars are produced only 0V)
40 order. The factory can produce two rail diesel cars per month at the most.
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;";hen the unit is not employed in construction of rail diesel cars, it
works on the assembly of "GANZ" type diesel engines for rail diesel czars
and electric cranes.
Locomotives
None are being manufactured at present. Before nationalization, the
factory produced 2-3 per month. In 1950 the factory built about 20 small
narrow-gauge locomotives for use in coal mines.
(At the present time, locomotives are built by the central railroad shops
of the Rumanian Railroads in BUCHAREST, called "GRIVITA ROSIN").
Freight cars
From 1947 until October 1951, an average of 60 boxcars, of 50 tons, vvere
produced per month; these cars JWr were destined exclusively for the
SOVIET UNION as war reparations. The unit employed in this work always won
the factory socialist work competitions and was rapidly supplied with all
the material which it required, since the output was for the USSR.
On 1 October 1951 the unit began producing open freight cars of 10-15
tons, with high walls, for the transport of coal. These cars are destined
for domestic usd in RUMANIA. Since this production fo'. the
Rumanian railroads was began, the unit has no longer won the socialist
competitions nor has it received its materials with the former rapidity.
Engines
"GANZ?' type diesel engines for replacement in rail diesel cars.
Other diesel engines, of undetermined type and horsepower, in
unknown quantity.
Other Material
- Pumps and drilling equipment for the oil industry.
- Cylindrical sheet-metal fuel tanks.
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- Pressure boilers and pressure tanks for metallurgical factories,
- Vats for castings in foundries.
- Other products of sheet-metal.
- Electric cranes, complete except for the motor.
- Metal frameworks for the building industry.
- Iron towers for high-tension power lines.
- Iron door and window frames for enterprises and. factories.
Ball bearings are not produced. The factory only produces housings
for ball bearings.
Repairs: Combustion engines and electric motors are repaired.
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Former independent factory for the production of "uiAIMSitILA''Tq"
formerly the property of MALAXA, renamed "REPUBLICI" after nationalisation.
General:
Ilthough the factory is adjacent to the "23 AUGUST" Factory, it has
no connection with it. Casting work necessary for the "RPUBLICI" Factory
is done by the foundry of the "23 AUGUST" Factory, but such work is
invoiced and paid for in the usual manner.
Location
Located on DE MUNCI Boulevard, adjacent to the "23 AUGUST" Factory,
separated from the latter by the SOSCA DUDESTI CIOPLEA?
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1) Installation for recovery and cleaning of water for cooling the
engines, machinery, and materials processed; under construction. Tis
consists of a concrete underground basin, built in the form of two c.)ntioguous
inverted truncated pyramids, with a total surface area 30 by 15 meters.
The masonry work is completed. The pumps and cleaning ecvipment will be
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installed in 1952; at the present time, however,Adoes notAknow wher3 to
purchase them. At the present time the cooling water is lost.
2) Masonry building 15 by 4 meters, housing some secondary offices.
3) Gatekeeper's house: building 10 by 4 meters.
4) Building 4 by 20 meters housing the costs and sales unit.
5) Electric transformer and compressor station. Masonry building
20 by 15 meters. This was built in 1950 to supplement an old transformer
station, installed in Building No 9, which was no long=er adequate fo? the
needs of the factory.
6) Underground oil depot, consisting of a cylindrical tank of undetermined
capacity. The oil is used for the engines which power the transformers and
compressors and by the central plant supplying steam under pressure.
7) Central plant for steam under pressure. Consists of two groups
of two steam boilers each, functioning alternately. They furnish steam under
pressure to the installations of the factory. The plant is located in a
masonry building 30 by 6 meters.
8) New building 15 by 25 meters, completed in November 1951.
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Main buildin of the factor Ma
9 g y. lv-'. onry building 400 by 300 meters,
with a serrated mkk roof with skylights. All the installations for tube
manufacture are installed in the building:
- Rolling mills of various ownl~ one of which is from 3 to 6
"Toli" (inches).
Machines for gauging, threading, finishing, and testing tubes.
The largest rolling mill, of 14 "Toli" (inches), was taken away
by the Russians.
At the west corners of the building there are two four-story buildings,
housing the below mentioned offices:
9a) 1st floor: Main administration.
2nd floor: Technical administration.
3rd floor: Various offices.
4th floor: Technological and production costs unit.
9b) 1st floor: Insurance offices.
2nd floor: Personnel office.
3rd floor: Administrative office and cashier.
4th floor: Salary and placement office.
10) New masonry building 260 by 60 meters, adjacent to the main
building, completed on 1 May 1951. At present, a rolling mill of from " to
3 "Toli" (inches), built with parts of various origin, is installed there.
It is deficient in operation and production.
Internal Organization
Director general: certain VE`:LEF',,
Technical director: Engineer 1UNAGE,
:'orker. s :
About 4,000, divided into three shifts. During the night shift,
however, a limited number of workers are on duty: those assigned to the
rolling mills and a few other auxiliary services.
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1111-AdvNNESMANN" tubes (finished and semifinished) from 5 to 10 meters long
and fromr to 6-8 inches in diameter, used in the oil industry and in
locomotives.
'!uantity: About 300 carloads per year.
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i.) 1;dscell..aneous
1951 Complete submission of Rumanian Communist workers to the USSR
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October 1951
SECURITY LNFORMATIOIa"
The food situation is particularly serious. Rationed goods
can be obtained only very rarely, and prices on the authorized free
market are too high for the masses of the people. Prices on the black
market are absolutely prohibitive.
Prices of some foods:
Sugar: rationed, 55 lei; free market, 200 lei; black market, 400 lei..
Oil: rationed, 56 lei; free market, 200 lei; black market, 400 lei.
None has been distributed on ration for two months.
b) Industries
August 1950 '' SOVROMCONSTRUCTII 7" Construction Enterprise
The administration of the enterprise is in CONSTk\ITA. It is
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in charge of all work on the construction of the DjNNUBE-BLACK SEA Canal.
December 1950 "SOVRONCONSTRUCTII " Construction Erte:rrise
The administration of this enterprise is in BUCHILREST.\
It has several branches, including the one of PLOESTI
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"SOVROMCONSTRUCTII 3" also has projects at SINAIAI TARGCVISTE
near which a small village is being built, and VALENI u
October 1951 "PORT ROS" Shipyard
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LocatedA3 kilometers from the center of GALATI, between the
old and new docks on the DANUBE. It employs 4,000-5,000 workers.
Production:
l) Naval and civilian vessels of small tonnage.
2) Major and minor repairs of vessels.
A submarine was completed in June and immediately delivered to the Russians.
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October 1951 Sheet-metal factory
Located near the above mentioned shipyard. About 1,500 persons are
employed; there are three shifts. Various sheet-metals are produced.
The entire output is sent to the SOVIET UNION.
October 1951 Railroad shop
Located opposite the station. It employs 4,000-5,000 workers,
It constructs and performs major repairs on railroad rolling stock.
c) Power
Thermal
October 1951 electric power plant
Located near the old dock. It was constructed before the war.
Machinery
one 5,000-HP turbine and two-
2,500-HP turbines, powered by diesel engines.
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a) Concentration Camps
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August 1950 Concentration camp
A concentration camp for political prisoners was located
near T DG1DIA. About 2,000 persons were confined there; they were
employed on the construction of the DANUBE-BLACK SEA Canal.
October 1951 Public opinion
The people are becoming constantly more dissatisfied with 50X1-HUM
the low standard of living due to the high cost of food and clothing.
Medicines are scarce and very expensive, while there is a heavy increase
of illness due to malnutrition, especially among children. The constant
supervision and intervention of the Russians in all branches of activity
increases the already considerable feeling of discontent among the people.
'MISCELLANEOUS POLITICAL INFORIvATION
Treatment of civilians forced to evacuate the strip along the
Rumanian-Yugoslav border
December 1950 Village at . . .
village of about 800 dwellings is under construction at
FRUMUSITA for ? civilians forced to evacuate the above mentioned border
strip. The civilians are required to furnish the manpower for the work;
the supervisory personnel are furnished by SOVROMCONSTN,UCTII No 3.
The above mentioned civilians are temporarily quartered in sheet-metal
barracks. Those who arrived with cattle were forced to give up their cattle,
on the grounds that the animals would be crossed with the local cattle to
improve the breed. After several months, the cattle had not yet been
returned.
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December 1950
Another village, for other civilians from the same
border zone, is under construction at VADENI.
October 1951
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A) Political information
-? a) Press
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Nov 1951 With the nationalization of all economic activities of the
country, the typographic industry has been placed under
the control of the state, thus eliminating all. private
initiative.
The following has been established:
DIREZIONE CENTRALE POLIGRAFICI (Central Pol graphic Office),
under the Ministry of Finance, located iii Bucharest
Director General: MANESCU
Assistant Director: PLIZCI
The iegional polgraphic centers depend on the central office and
the sub-centers on the regional centers.
Centers and sub-centers
- Center No i
Comprises the former printing-house "CARTA ROMANASCA",
located on Grigore Alexandrescu street.
This is the printing-house of the P.C.R.
Center No 2
Administration
Located in the printing-house of the former "P:MONITORUL OFICIAL"
(Official Gazette), in a 4-story building on liba former Regina
Elisabetta boulevard (now called by a different name)
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a certain ROMAS
Dependent sub-centers
- Sub-center "a'
der: a certain NATACIA
The sub-center in question comprises:
1) the printing-house of the former "MONOTORUL OFICIAL",
located on the boulevard, formerly called Regina Elisabet
2) the printing-house, formerly called "IMPRIMF IA NATIONATA
located at Serban Voda street No 135, in the Nikolai Balce.;cu
quarters
1) printing-house of the former "MONOTORUL OFICIAL" (Official
Gazette)
Workers: about 800
Printed material
"Buletin Oficial" - official bulletin of the state, formerly
called "MONOTORUL OFICIAL"
textbooks for schools
-various printing matters
printing-house, formerly called "IMPRIM' t.IA NATIONALA"
workers: about 1,000, subdivided into 3 shifts:
from 0700 to 1500
from 1500 to 2300
from 2300 to 0700
all manifestoes of the government to be posted on walls,
comprising [ra~~t~tx~rsstxxx those for propaganda purposes
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(for example, recently the interview with Stalint the
Soviet atomic bomb)
- textbooks for schools
propaganda
- /books and booklets of the government
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allration cards
various printing matters
various printing matters for the ministries
posters and. boxes for the Ministry of Health
Z.a
Among others, 1,000 tables demonstrating the parts ofYrifles
and machine guns for the armorer school of the M.A.I.(Jiinisterul
Afacilor Interni - Ministry of the Interior) troops.
1,200 tables are being produced which demonstrate the engine of I'Z
r a A* 4 ? 5-cylinder, "F 111f Soviet * m*i~ i"&K
Sub-center "c" (?)
Comprises the former printing-house "LUCA FARU", located
on Luigi Catavilan street
Sub-center "?"
This is the printing-house of the former "UNIV;tSUL"
newspaper
Raw material
"lost of the paper is furnished by the paper-mill of
BUSTENI
Frinting-house of the "SCANT11, daily newspaper
b#ilding
Nov 1951 The new W * xof the printing-house of the newspaper
of the "SCANTA" party, located on Padurea Baneasa
is i k :CxJcxxx2ximmaV1 almost completed
The newspapers are already being printed in the new
printing-house.
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It is equipped with the newest Soviet machinery for the
printing of newspapers with 7 presses which permit the
printing of 400,000 - 500,000 copies per hour.-
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