Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This stiff talk was followed by the unfolding of new Bolshevik building plans on a scale more grandiose than ever before. Commented News Pundit Walter Duranty: "Here they are building-mad. From the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea, from the Baltic to the shores of the Pacific, there is such a fury of building as the world never saw. In the coming year the Soviets will spend 32 billion rubles on a building program which, in the valuation of Russian materials and Russian labor, represents between fifteen and twenty billions of dollars...
...Reared in the academic society of Amherst, Mass., where Henry James went visiting his young cousins and Emily Dickinson was one of the town characters, she found the life pleasantly stimulating, graduated naturally into studying art in Paris. Marriage to Albert White Vorse, a writer with a hobby of arctic exploration, further broadened her horizon. In a winter spent in Italy she saw her first big strike (Venetian gondoliers). It impressed her but hardly got under her skin. Back in the U. S., she and her husband set up a co-operative housekeeping venture in Manhattan with some other young...
...projects thus far was the famed Stalin Canal (linking the White Sea via Lake Onega with the Baltic Sea), finished two years ago (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933). Uncensored sources told of men & women driven with whips amid the flare of torches to pick-ax frozen ground during the long Arctic nights. Censored sources presented the Stalin Canal as a glorious social achievement in which "criminals redeemed themselves'' and official Soviet newsreels have spread this throughout the world...
With the South Seas, Africa and the Arabian Desert well exploited recently as lands of legends and mystery, the Arctic has now been called upon to serve as the stage for adventurers fleeing the monotonies of modern industrialism. Last week a suspicious reader, surveying a group of current books dealing with life near the North Pole, might have reached the conclusion that some astute press agent was handling publicity for the Eskimos, the Aurora Borealis and other features of those trackless wastes. Although all the books graphically picture the hardships of long winters and extreme cold, all make life...
...Arctic Adventure. Peter Freuchen abandoned his career while still a medical student in Denmark, visited North Greenland in 1907, later established a trading post there. Arctic Adventure is principally his story of life with the natives, whose fantastic modesty and equally fantastic generosity delighted him. North Greenland Eskimos considered it impolite to mention their own names, always waited for someone else to identify them. When a host offered his guests food, he first apologized that it was not fit to eat. They believed that human beings could be trusted in all relationships except the sexual, consequently could not understand ideas...