The Reconstruction of Moscow

members whose excellent work on the subway won them the highest award— the Order of Lenin—-is ^hown in the statement of the American engineer, G. Morgan, who wrote r "When we began to work with the shield the head office of 'Metrostroy' asked me to fix the speed. From a study of the geological conditions and a calculation of the requisite pressure of air I gave the figure as one metre per day, "Later on when I was having a talk with the Eng- lish experts who had had 25-35 years' experience on shield work and Who had been invited over to work the shield here, I gathered that their absolute limit un- der the existing conditions was 0.75 metres per day. The commission of French experts put the limit at the same figure. Then it seemed to me that my calcula- tions were too optimistic. J' Well, and how did it turn out? In no time at all the shield began to do 3 metres! As it happened my cal- culations for the soils, the shield itself, and the air pressure had been fully confirmed. I had just under- estimated the human element, I had been mistaken in the people working the shield." Old Moscow was characterized by executions and! pogroms, epidemics and fires, the shooting of revolution- ary workers and monstrous exploitation of the masses. But new Moscow^ — Soviet Moscow^ — is a world centre, a flourishing socialist city, the international capital of the workers and toilers of all lands, it is the dream city of all who are oppressed and exploited. Moscow has pressed forward with gigantic strides. Nothing can stop it. And the role of the subway in the great transfiguration of the Soviet capital can hardly be exaggerated.

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