Word: gorki
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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OTHER FIRES-Maxim Gorki-Appleton...
Impatient to get hair and start making felt at once, the Ministry of Light Industry dispatched a special barbers & felters shock brigade to Gorki (once Nizhni Novgorod), seat of the Soviet Union's biggest truck factory. When the brigade arrived Gorki was plunged in gloom. Officials had just turned in their year-end report, admitted that during 1932 Gorkites built only 7,500 trucks, compared to the Five-Year Plan scheduled production...
...Capitalism, both within Russia and without. By restoring the use of money, permitting Russians to buy & sell for what the traffic would bear and letting concessions to foreign capitalists, Nikolai Lenin gave Russia a new lease on economic life. But not in time to avoid the Great Famine. Maxim Gorki appealed for food to Herbert Hoover, then chairman of the American Relief Administration (A. R. A.). It is history that during the desperate famine winter of 1921-22 the A. R. A. fed some 10,000,000 Russians, other foreign relief agencies fed 2,000,000 and the Soviet Relief...
...completed a solitary trip around the world in a 35-foot sailboat, left Marseilles alone in his new sailboat Alain Gerbault. Friends said he was bound for Polynesia. The city of Nizhni-Novgorod, chief navigation centre on the Volga River. famed for its annual fair, was renamed Maxim Gorki in honor of "Soviet Russia's foremost man of letters." whose birthplace it is. Albert Whiting Fox. Washington attorney, sued Evalyn Walsh McLean for legal fees of $33,002.21. His services since April: prosecuted the action which led to the resignation of her husband. Edward Beale McLean, as publisher...
...travel with an oxygen cylinder, tuberculous Maxim Gorki, famed Russian writer, arrived in Berlin en route to an anti-war congress at Amsterdam, stayed there in a hospital when Dutch authorities denied him a visa...