Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pennsylvania's Joseph R Grundy, arch-lobbyist for manufacturers The sequence of recent events: 1) The Finance Committee by a vote of 7-to-4 first rearranged the manganese ore tariff on metal content, in effect increasing the duty above the 1 cent per Ib. level. 2) From Moscow came the announcement that U. S. Steel Corp. had signed a five-year contract with the Soviet for from 80,000 to 150,000 tons of Georgian manganese ore per annum. 3) Reconsidering, the Finance Committee reversed itself, voted 5-to-6 to free-list manganese ore, with a saving...
...Vladikavkas we wangled tickets on the railroad to Moscow. There were 13 of us in the car including a Russian general. We thought he was a porter and tipped him for getting us tea. My dear, how could we tell? All he had on was a pair of pants and an openwork undershirt...
Miss Cogswell and her "Mabel" (Mrs. Ingalls) were in Berlin when a party of 99 U. S. notables passed through en route to Moscow on a tour arranged by the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. Next day Socialite Cogswell and Morgan-Niece Ingalls decided that they wanted to tour Russia too, hopped onto a sleeping car to catch up and join the U. S. party...
Passed a fortnight. Early last week Molly and Mabel turned up in Moscow, penniless, disheveled, wearing borrowed clothing. With quiet dignity, Morgan-Niece Ingalls remained in the background Said Molly Cogswell...
Peter tore the capital of Muscovy from Moscow and planted it at St. Petersburg which he had created on a marsh. Peter gave his people the Cyrillic alphabet which seven-tenths of them have not yet mastered. He introduced tobacco and knouted any courtier who did not take to a pipe. Finding the women of Russia cooped Asiatically in harems, Peter dragged them out with a ukase. Fancying a lowly laundress whom soldiers called Katinka, he made her the Tsarina Catherine I. He decreed a new calendar. With knowledge won by toiling incognito as a shipwright in Holland he built...