Word: caviare
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...that it had "decisively overcome" Russia's shortage of consumer goods, abolished restriction cards (TIME, Oct. 7), threw open Moscow stores said to be bulging with more than the public could buy and dispatched throughout the world Soviet newsreels of beaming buyers rushing in to obtain meat, butter, caviar, cloth, quilts, rubbers, etc. One scoundrelly speculator was caught last week selling for 40 rubles a pair of gloves she had stood in line to buy from the State for 15 rubles, the purchaser preferring not to spend the day in a queue...
...Sisters attend when they tire of Raft's monastic regulations of their conduct, worldly success in general. When the Swanee Sisters have executed a bewildering overnight rise from penniless unemployment to cabaret celebrity, Patsy Kelly is less pleased than truculently suspicious and, when a waiter hands her a caviar canapé, her dissatisfaction is complete. "What good is caviar?" she demands hoarsely. "It tastes like buckshot soaked in axle grease." Good songs: Take It Easy, I'm in the Mood for Love...
Possibly the most hazardous, certainly the least comfortable sport in the world, transatlantic sailing appeals mostly to men .who, if they must live dangerously, have to supply their own danger. Biggest boat (72 ft. overall) in the Newport-to-Bergen race was Vamarie, owned and sailed by Caviar Tycoon Vadim Makaroff. Next biggest was Mistress, whose owner and skipper, George Emlen Roosevelt, is Commodore of the Cruising Club of America which sponsored the race, director in 20 companies, veteran of eleven blue-water races. Roderick Stephens Jr., who with his brother Olin won the last transatlantic race (1931) in Dorade...
...Foundation of the Hammer fortune was laid by Armand Hammer's father who made a great deal of money after the War selling medical supplies to the Soviets. Armand Hammer manufactured lead pencils in Moscow, traded U. S. wheat for furs and caviar, carried on a thriving business in Russia until 1930. Three years later, in Manhattan, he began buying air-dried white oak Russian staves for U. S. beer barrels. Because it is almost impossible to get actual money out of Russia, Concessionaire Hammer made an arrangement with the Soviet authorities to take his profits...
...help Admiral Kolchak fight the Bolsheviks. Back in the U. S. in 1921 to get a job. he worked for Midwest Refining Co., helped introduce the diamond drill, perfected a system of freezing orange juice in paper containers, organized Makaroff & Co. which became one of the biggest U. S. caviar importing companies, married A. & P. Heiress Josephine Hartford ("Jo") O'Donnell...