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Although it is expected that the express-chute will be useful in delivering perishable cargo wherever there is no airfield, its invention was brought about directly by the needs of the Moscow newspaper Pravda ('Truth"). Pravda prints local editions in Leningrad, Kharkov, Tiflis and Novo-Sibirsk by delivering matrices by airplane and dropping them by parachute. With ordinary parachutes the matrices frequently were smashed...
...litres, had overloaded the plane, and the excess fuel had to be siphoned out. It was 5 a. m. when the Winnie Mae roared into the East again. Still clipping off 150 m.p. it fol- lowed the Trans-Sib over the Ural mountains, landed after eleven hours at Novo Sibirsk. Another respite of eight hours, then on to Irkutsk and the half way mark, 1,050 mi. farther...
...imposing funeral procession made its way through Moscow several days after his death to the ancient monastery of Novo Devichi, where Peter the Great's elder sister, Sofia, was for many years imprisoned. Grey-clad troops acted as escort to the hearse, which was followed by many Communist notables and members of the Oppositionist ranks. In their rear came some 500 of the populace followed again by a company of troops. They were no untoward incidents along the route...
Arriving at the cemetary which surrounds Novo Devichi, the coffin was carried to the edge of the grave by Trotsky, Zinoviev, Radek, Kamenev, Rakovsky and an unspecified member of the Joffe family-all Oppositionists. Foreign Commissar Georg Tchitcherin, representing the Central Committee of the Communist Party, spoke first, paying an eloquent tribute to M. Joffe's services and ability as a diplomat. But the greatest of all the speeches was that of Leon Trotsky, the Communist outcast...
...Thereafter, the Secretary of Commerce shall regulate under principles laid down by the commission, and shall initiate such further regulaton as may be necessary. BUT, anyone who dislikes a Department of Commerce regulation, may appeal to the Commission which will consider the case de novo. Ultimately, the Commission can remain "boss," if it so chooses...