Word: beese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To the pink-walled Kremlin the postman brought the usual batch of patriotic letters for Tovarishcha Stalina, the usual donations ranging from 50,000 to 1,000,000 rubles for Red Army weapons.*The one Comrade Stalin liked the best and the one Pravda featured came from gnarled, patriarchal Ferapont...
Last year Grandfather Golovaty gave 100,000 rubles for a fighter plane, which his Saratov neighbor, Guards Major Yeremin, had flown at Stalingrad, Rostov, Taganrog, Melitopol and in the Crimea. Now, wrote the beekeeper, the plane was "quite worn down." Meanwhile, Grandfather Golovaty's bees had produced much honey...
Last week Grandfather Golovaty left his bees to their own hard-working devices, journeyed to town for the ceremony of presentation. To Major Yeremin he imparted some grandfatherly instruction: ". . . revenge my son Stepan, and my cousin Ivan . . . and all the sorrow and suffering which the Hitlerite invaders have caused."
Other Soviet experimenters have doctored bees with vitaminized syrups, vegetable juices, milk. Since honey is a good preservative, the honeyed juices thus produced keep their food values for long periods.
Then Arefyeff began to dose his bees with medicines. When he gave them a concoction of honey and quinine, they gave back quinine-loaded honey. The converted honey medicine proved easier for a human being to assimilate than the medicine itself.