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...which were down to only some $15,000,000 in 1934, have doubled in volume so far this year. This fact he turned into a feat of diplomacy by instructing William Christian Bullitt, long-suffering U. S. Ambassador in Moscow, to agree with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff that Russia, in return for the indicated increase in her purchases from the U. S. during the next twelvemonth, shall enjoy for that period a 50% reduction in the U. S. tariff on manganese, one of Russia's chief exports to the U. S., a 12½% tariff slash...
Typical Chanese maxim: "Theory, like mist on eyeglasses, obscures fact." Good shot: the Negro retainer (Stepin Fetchit) losing his flashlight in a tomb which he considers to be a convention hall for "hants...
With a great pouf of relief Foreign Minister Laval leaped from the table. Eager to help, Maxim Litvinoff, President of the League Council, summoned his colleagues at 12:47 a.m. At 1:37 a.m. the Council passed two interlocking resolutions. They provide that four arbitrators (Abyssinia's two and two appointed by Italy) must reach a decision by July 25, failing which a fifth arbitrator will be chosen by the League Council. All five will be given until Aug. 25 to reach agreement, after which the League Council will take things over, scratch its head, ponder...
What happened: Maxim Gorki was flying about half a mile high, carrying a crew of eleven, 36 passengers. Of the latter, nearly all were aviation shockworkers and their families, getting a "joyride" in reward for faithful service. On the ground, at Moscow Central Airdrome, 32 other shockworkers were waiting their turn to go up. Looking up, they saw the pilot of the tiny training plane stunting, in violation of orders. They saw him come out of a loop, crash head on into Maxim Gorki. With the little plane wedged in its wing between two motors, Maxim Gorki began falling...
Worst airplane tragedy in history, the Maxim Gorki disaster was Russia's third major air crash. In September 1933 five of her highest aviation officials, along with several other persons, died in a crash near Moscow. Two months later the super-airliner K7, then the world's largest land-plane, killed 14 in a crash at Kharkov. Mournfully last week the Kremlin announced a State funeral for the latest victims, compensation for their families...