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...longshoremen that it was the British, not the Russians, who stood to lose on the crab meat (which had been foisted on the British by Russia in place of promised timber). Similarly, the furs had already been bought by U.S. furriers; Russia wouldn't lose a kopeck on them. To the A.F.L. longshoremen the issue was simple: they were all Russian goods. Said a dockers' spokesman: "Let them send their crab meat ... to the Reds in North Korea-that's where they are sending their tanks, guns [and] planes...
...time of the Czar's execution in 1918 some 75,000 of the bonds, each with a face value of $1,000, were floating around the U.S. One of the first acts of the Soviet government was to repudiate them, and they have never been worth a kopeck since. Yet U.S. speculators have never tired of trading in them and the bonds have kept some market "value"-based on nothing but hope that Russia some day will redeem them...
...LIFE, ONE KOPECK - Walter Duranty-Simon & Schuster...
...Please), an "effervescent little English expatriate with a faint air of skulldruggery about him," has acquired an impressive reputation not only as No. 1 U. S. foreign correspondent but also as the most official of unofficial U. S. ambassadors. Readers of his first novel, One Life, One Kopeck (titled after a Russian proverb meaning "Life is not worth a damn") may feel that Correspondent Duranty has now added to that reputation the right to be called the most official of unofficial Russian novelists. The tale of a peasant boy who rises to the rank of a Red Army commander...
Green with terror the culprit wailed: "I acted in good faith! I ordered all the women in my cooperative to cut off their hair and I sold it at a good price and I turned over every kopeck to the Government. That was the only way I could show a profit! Could I help it if the women were angry...