Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terrible famine in 1891, when the rye and wheat crops failed. In a dozen provinces around Samara 30,000,000 peasants shrank on the bone and swelled in the belly. The great U.S. heart was touched. Money was raised, four ships of provisions and clothing sailed for St. Petersburg. But the Volga was far from the Mississippi and the aid came too late: thousands perished...
Shoppers. In Petersburg, Ind., a woman shopper bought a coat, paid for it with a bag containing 1,850 pennies. In Benton Harbor, Mich., a woman who bought a dress in 1918 took it back to the store, complained it hadn't worn well...
...went back to Russia and pushed his country's borders to the Baltic Sea. Then, by the Baltic Peter built the beginnings of his favorite city, St. Petersburg. The town grew, and Peter gave it a fortress touching the water-great Kronstadt. Peter called the place his "paradise,"eventually moved his capital there, by the water...
Last February, in St. Petersburg, Fla., died Apostle Reed Smoot, still isolationist, still bitter at Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade agreements, which partially nullified the still-existing Smoot-Hawley Act. And last week, in Salem, Ore., death came to Willis Hawley, 77, the Oregon axman who had helped chop down the economic foundations of the world...
...northern front the Russians fared better. The attack on Leningrad-which the Germans persisted in calling by the Tsarist name, St. Petersburg-developed as a sneak around two lakes: Ladoga on the Finnish side, Peipus on the Estonian. The Finns, said a German reporter, fought so fanatically that they had to be restrained; but the Russians fought hard too. One German reporter described "bandits" on this front who fought with axes, daggers, broken bottles and adzes...