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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England to Canada last month, got them to Quebec two days late because of icebergs and fog. If Their Majesties had crossed last week, they would have been held up longer, for the bergs were crowding thicker into the North Atlantic shipping lanes. The International Ice Patrol reported no fewer than 800-more than in any year since 1912, when one of the 1,019 icebergs sighted that year sank the Titanic...
Meanwhile, many a panicky conservative institution, not knowing quite where to shoot, has laid aside its rifle and taken to firing buckshot. William Preston Few's Duke University, for example, offers no fewer than 739 undergraduate courses, has 35 separate courses in Greek alone...
...though normal diplomatic forms have long been observed, trade agreements negotiated, the two countries have had fewer cultural relations than the U. S. and Russia. Strictly according to precedent were last week's negotiations: upsets, reversals of policy, war and the threat of war, aid to each other's enemies, suspicion, distrust and downright hatred culminating in iron-clad alliances have marked British-Russian relations for more than a century...
...publicized, to the Third, as Stalingrad grew on the Volga, Sverdlovsk on the site of the Tsar's execution, industrial life moved as swiftly as the political life of the State. The 37,000 plants that were nationalized by the end of 1920-two-thirds of them employing fewer than 15 men each-gave way to 61,000 large-scale, State-owned, State-operated industries. The industrial machine that had stalled in 1922 was at its pre-War average in 1926. During the Five-Year Plans...
...peasant households were in collectives, livestock continued to be slaughtered until it was made a capital offense, until the 1933 livestock population was smaller than it had been in 1922, until 5% of collective farm income was devoted to repaying peasants for property they contributed. But there were fewer peasants, more prisoners, and 19,000,000 fewer horses, 14,700,000 fewer cattle, 3,000,000 fewer hogs, 95,100,000 fewer sheep and goats...