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446 THE TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

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[[caption]] "A CORRUGATED SHEET OF WATER," POURING OVER THE LIP OF A DAM IN NEW HAMPSHIRE [[/caption]]

Engineers in Russia

AN ANALYSIS of United States exports to ten foreign countries for the first three months of 1930 shows an increase in shipments to only two countries, Russia and Mexico.  The exports to Russia for that period were over three times as large as for the corresponding months of 1929. Since 1924, over 2,000 American business houses have received Russian orders and in 1929 exports increased $54,000,000 over 1928.]
A large percentage of these exports to Russia for the past few years has consisted of turbines, electrical equipment and textile machinery specified by American engineers in the employ of the Soviet Government. Power stations, locomotive works, machine building plants, textile mills, automobile factories, and steel mills are being constructed there according to American industrial principles and under the supervision of experienced American engineers. No doubt the rapid depletion of Russia's finest caviar and her one-time plentiful supply of old French wines is directly traceable to the voracious, if not discriminating, American appetites.
America may well be thankful for this business with the Soviet Government. Considerable slack in American industry which came as a result of the stock market crash of last fall has been partially alleviated by the avalanche of orders placed by the Amtorg Trading Corporation of New York- official purchasing agents for the Soviet Government. Cleveland, a machine tool center, perhaps more than any other city has benefited from this Russian business. The Austin company with headquarters in that city contemplates the expenditure of nearly $20,000,000 in the United States for materials to be used in building Russia's first model city for the manufacture of automobiles.
The power project being developed on the Dnieper River, under American supervision, will cost $110,000,000. It will require 130 railroad cars to transport the electrical equipment for the single power development. Although Russia has not been recognized politically by America, the American businessman an engineer apparently realize the size and the importance of the Russian market in a encouraging its development.

Fog

Cabled dispatches the comprehensive fog studies were being undertaken by the Institute’s meteorological station on the estate of Colonel E. H. R. Green at Round Hill, Mass., reached England during the anniversary of the persistent fog of 1902. With the possible exception of residents of the western slope of the cascade Mountains in the state of Washington, such an item could excite no greater interest then among Britons poking about in the murk of a scotch mist, a Dartmoor drizzle, or the atmospheric pea soup of a “London partic’lar.” To the story, therefore, English editors gave prominence.