Word: landed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poles,*the Finns were ready with anti-tank guns and heavier field artillery. They claimed to have smashed up 54 juggernauts in five days as they fell back on their fortified Mannerheim Line. At Terijoki, seat of the new Red puppet Finnish "Government" (see p. 26), they left land mines which they claimed blew up thousands of Russians...
...kind of a war it had time & again decried had many explanations and many puzzles. Perhaps the Kremlin feared an anti-Comintern peace in the West-a peace in which Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain would join together against the U.S.S.R.-and was merely strengthening Russia's land and sea approaches against the day when the "land of workers and peasants" would have to be defended unto death. Another theory was that Dictator Stalin was determined to restore to his country the lands that belonged to the Tsars. If so, then Rumania's Bessarabian territory would...
...Confiscation of lands belonging to big landowners, without touching the lands and properties of peasants, and transfer of the confiscated land to peasants having no land or possessing small allotments...
...State assistance in every form for the improvement of economies for the poor peasants, in the first place by alloting to them additional land, pastures and when possible also forests for their domestic needs, from lands confiscated from large landowners...
...Strangers in the Land-E. B. Ashton -Scribner ($2.50). A competent report on nervous habits of a fast set in pre-Hitler Bavaria, centring on a German-Jewish lawyer and his shaky romance with a U. S. tourist...