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Meantime the Krassin ploughed steadily down the Baltic, across the Atlantic, through the Panama Canal, up the Pacific Coast, through Bering Straits. Smaller (4,900 tons) than the luckless Chelyuskin (6,500 tons), it had special ice-breaking equipment which enabled it to crunch indomitably through the pack. When it put in at Wrangel last week the colonists, their belongings packed and their long exile over, shed tears of joy. Fifteen scientists went ashore to replace the departing six. Mme Semenchuk. wife of the new station chief, presented a bouquet to Mme Mineyev, wife of the retiring chief...
...Wickham-White. It was 11 ft. 6 in. long, 6 ft. 2 in. in girth and weighed 798 Ib. No man-eating has been proved against the mako, but fishermen who have fearfully watched its great, jagged teeth snap their oars, rip off their rudders and crunch their boats' sides would rather not make the test. Fisherman Grey puts mako fishing in a class with tiger and elephant hunting for thrill and danger. Largest game fish ever caught with rod & reel was Zane Grey's 1,040-lb. marlin. But the mako is the only shark which will...
Josef Stalin heard last week in his mind's ear the groans of the dead and dying, the crack and crunch of wood & steel, which went to make up Russia's railroad disasters of the last month. He issued a decree: "Transport must improve. Some workers are so inefficient as almost to be wreckers. Unless their work improves, allegiance to the Communist Party will not save them." High spots in a month's wrecking which the Government dribbled out to the Press days late...
...catch lazy, inefficient bureaucratic Comrades in its long jaws and crunch them with merciless humor is the job of The Crocodile, Soviet Russia's comic-monthly-with-a-purpose. Crunch went The Crocodile's jaws recently upon luckless Comrade Isakhanov, Red Director of a soviet shoe factory at Tiflis, 1.200 miles south of Moscow...
This time no Kylsant limousine waited. The two warders, dwarfed in size by their charge, cried: "Taxi! Hi, taxi!" When the cab drew up Lord Kylsant entered and sat down with a crunch. Asked the taxi driver, "Where...