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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...selling smuggled diamonds" two Moscow jewelers met death. (The American Jewelers Association estimates that 50% of the diamonds sold in the U. S. have been smuggled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Execution Week | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...three ways: 1) by failing to sow all one's grain fields (a shameful hotbed of this vice is the district of Kuba, where only 4% of the fields were sown last Spring); 2) by refusing to sell grain to the Government collector at the price fixed in Moscow; 3) by inciting others to such "opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Execution Week | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Tadjikistan now ranks with the seven other Independent Socialist Soviet Republics: 1) White Russia; 2) The Ukraine; 3) Armenia; 4) Uzbek; 5) Georgia; 6) Azerbaijan; 7) Turcoman. The joker is that all of these "independent republics" are federated with the Moscow Government of "Russia Proper," officially the R. S. F. S. R. or Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic. In theory the federal bond can be cast off by any Independent Republic at its sole discretion, but in practice such a step would bring Red Army divisions hot from Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Tadjiks Promoted | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...only cotton but gold, coal, oil, iron, zinc and pigeon-blood rubies. Intensive field work by smart agents of Dictator Stalin caused Tadjiks to increase the area of their cotton fields from a mere 4,900 acres in 1917 to 240,000 acres this year. Meantime at the Moscow Government's expense 140 miles of railway are under construction in Tadjikistan, together with 312 miles of highways, 60 medical dispensaries, twelve modern hospitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Tadjiks Promoted | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Land of the Soviets, Russian world flying plane, reached Detroit last week with its four operators. They started, on their second attempt, from Moscow Aug. 23, flew across Siberia to the Aleutian Islands (U. S.), to the Alaskan mainland, down the Pacific Coast to Seattle, to San Francisco, then overland to Chicago, Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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