Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich Russia- should go in for wood-burning motor trucks Moscow observers easily explained. The mighty Soviet oil fields do not of course spout gasoline; Russian cracking plants have given trouble; the gasoline has to be shipped thousands of miles; but almost everywhere in Russia wood is abundant...
...Soviet police last week jailed numerous Komsomol (Communist Youth Organization) leaders in the Ukraine and White Russia, who were accused of fomenting pogroms, according to Swedish press reports from Moscow. Stirred up by Young Communists, citizens of Pedobanya of the River Nemiljana started beating up Jews and attacking their homes. Moscow dispatched a commission of inquiry which reported that in the Ukraine there is "organized and fairly widespread" antiSemitism. In Kiev, the Soviet Ukrainian Capital, anti-Jewish riots were suppressed by Red Army troops...
This striking decision was announced at Moscow with dramatic display. The official press declared that on July 1 twelve wood-burners driven by Soviet crews exclusively female started out on a triumphal 7,000-mile test run which included a run through the Ural Mountains and was completed last week "with no accidents and no serious breakdowns." Foreign correspondents turned out to count the trucks as they were driven by their pretty crews through cheering crowds. They counted seven wood-burners which actually crossed the finish line out of the original twelve...
...last week he was neither backing nor encouraging a German move into Czechoslovakia-quite the reverse. Less interested in downing Jews than in upping Italians, Benito Mussolini has long pursued a campaign to make his countrymen proud of their race, turn Italians with an inferiority complex into "Romans." The Moscow News's cartoonist observed in this move definite signs of race-proud Nazi incubation. This work of creating 20th Century Romans was handed over last week to a new department under Minister of the Interior Benito Mussolini named the Superior Council for Democracy and Race...
Serge Prokofieff (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC-Blue). Russian composer-pianist in a concert of his own works by short wave from Moscow...