Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cossacks arrived for a first U. S. tour. They entered the country on "Nansen passes" (devised by the late Norwegian Explorer-Statesman Fridtjof Nansen to aid Russian emigres after the Revolution, issued by the League of Nations). Stories preceded them: about a concert they gave in Yassi, frontier town of Rumania, where so many Bessarabians mobbed the theatre that firemen were called to play the hose on them; in Riga, where 20,000 people met Jaroff at the station, carried him and his automobile to the hotel; in Berlin, where a German general gave him the Iron Cross...
Exuberantly Il Duce concluded: "By the year 1950 Italy will be the only country of young people in Europe, while the rest of Europe will be wrinkled and decrepit. People will come from over the frontier to see the phenomenon of this blooming Spring of the Italian people...
...area as large as the U. S. states east of the Mississippi River-towns and cities were frequently "captured" by both Federals and Rebels simultaneously last week-if their official announcements were to be believed. ' The main fighting line, insofar as it existed, was the southern frontier of the great coffee state of Sao Paulo, "Heart of Brazil," bailiwick of President Washington Luis and his ruling clique. It appeared certain that the southern Rebels had not advanced north of this frontier...
...suspected every egg set before him of being from Moscow. What drove him frantic was that he could not be sure! "In Great Britain, Belgium and Germany it is otherwise!", stormed he to correspondents. "With great wisdom those countries stamp imported eggs with an indication of origin at the frontier.† France must do the same! Millions of eggs from Moscow are being dumped upon us, Messieurs. I have information that the Paris market has been swamped with these Soviet eggs- eggs of such poor quality as to constitute a menace to the public health...
...Three thousand Southwest officials and others heard the Secretary exclaim: "I have the honor to name this dam after a great engineer, who really started this greatest project of all time-the Hoover Dam!"- Then all trooped back to Las Vegas. There they saw scenes reminiscent of the frontier days when the first railroads were thrown across the western deserts of the U. S. Oldtime "desert rats" swarmed into a small town which had boomed because of its geological location (TIME, Feb. 10). Gaming tables and coin-in-slot pianos were prevalent. There was rough carnival in the atmosphere. Notably...