Word: crackpot
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Urals by Dictator Stalin, for ten years in the case of collective farms, for five years in the case of private farmers. In effect, the Red Dictator conferred the privilege of Capitalist free trade on the entire Soviet peasantry east of the Urals. Stalin had not suddenly become a crackpot. He merely felt able, with U. S. recognition now safe under his belt, to take sweeping, super-drastic measures of defense against Japan. The best defense, he reasoned, is to make bleak, sparsely populated Siberia so attractive to Russians that they will swarm there with enthusiasm and, once established, fight...
Such a scene was not enacted last week but it was prepared on paper. The scheme was newsworthy because it issued not from a crackpot inventor but from a builder who, already famed for racing designs, promises this year to become a factor in commercial airplane manufacturing. He is Granville, of Springfield, Mass...