Word: grains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dwelling, as their forbears have dwelt for centuries in the fertile, balmy Kuban adjoining the Black Sea, the 46,000 Cossacks farmed a rich area around four towns: Poltavskaya, Medvyedevsky, Urupskaya, Umanskaya. They may or may not have tried to grow & deliver as much grain as the Five-Year Planners thought they should. Last week with no exception every Cossack man, woman and child in the area was bundled off "to work near the Arctic Circle" in unspecified mines and lumber camps...
Chamberlain, S. Dak. is a prairie town, pop. 1,300, with a grain elevator and lumberyard. The C. M. St. P. & P. Ry. crosses the muddy Missouri River there. The tiny town contains an Indian School, a hospital, four doctors...
...remote mines or factories from which Soviet labor has shown a tendency to flee. 3) To conciliate the peasants. Dictator Stalin is expected to issue this month a decree ending the hated system whereby the peasant must deliver to the State a quantity of grain based on the size of his crop (variable from year to year) and substituting a system of State grain collections based on the area of the peasant's farm (which is fixed, not variable...
...present) system the more a peasant raised the more he had to deliver to the state. Under the new system the more he raises the more he will have left to sell in the open market at prices often ten times what the State pays when it "collects" (confiscates) grain...
...Montana was Thomas Donald Campbell, mechanized-farming pioneer. True, his Campbell Farming Corp. "operates" only 95,000 acres, which look small beside ten million acres, but the Soviet Government decided that Mr. & Mrs. Campbell were people to honor. They were whisked to Moscow. Farmer Campbell energetically advised the Soviet Grain Trust. After that the fun began. In 1932 Mr. Campbell wrote about it in Russia: Market or Menace? (Longmans, Green...