Recession Helps Russians Narrow Production Gap
While industrial output in the United States has been dropping rapidly during the current recession, the in-, dustrial output of the Soviet Union has been surging) ; upward at an equally rapid pace.</br></br>; sians are swiftly narrowing [ 'the big gap between industrial i production of the Soviet' Union and that of the United I States.	Û¢</br></br>American industrial output 'in January and February 1958 |was approximately 10 percent! lower than it was in the same, two months of 1957, according to the Federal Reserve Index.</br></br>An official communique of' the Central Statistical Administration of the Soviet Gov-! eminent placed Soviet indus--trial production in January, and February 1958 at 11 per cent highter than in the same period of 1957.	!</br></br>This figure of 10 or 11 per ( cent animal increase is typical of the rate at which Russian industrial production-is being, increased each year currently.