Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family, Fabergé had probably studied goldsmithing in Paris, but there was no evidence that he had done a lick of manual work on any of the works on exhibition. His genius was in his head and active enough to keep 700 artisans, mostly Finns, busy in his St. Petersburg workrooms. The imperial court was not Fabergé's only customer: every millionaire in Russia clamored for his wondrous candlesticks and parasol handles. In time he produced enameled pigs for the court of King Chulalongkorn of Siam, Buddhas and bowls for his son, Rama VI, and a gold cigarette...
...Poland. His native city, however, was not Warsaw, but the small town of Slovuta, in Volhynia, a province which for centuries has been alternately Polish and Russian. Far from being a child of the working class, he was reared at the aristocratic Nicholas Officers' School in St. Petersburg. In World War II he commanded the armies that relieved Stalingrad, crossing the Don to close a ring around the Nazis' besieging divisions. In mid-1944 he headed the Soviet forces which ignominiously sat outside his "native" Warsaw while Polish patriots inside, having been signaled by the Russians to rise...
Pillowcase. In Petersburg, Va., Jewelry Salesman Herbert Streiff asked that local laundries be thoroughly searched for $30,000 in precious stones which he had stuffed into his tourist-camp pillow for safekeeping...
...Petersburg, Fla., where they both limbered up for the season (Henrich with the New York Yankees and Musial with the St. Louis Cardinals), they were less conspicuous than the greenest rookies. Nobody had to give them orders about getting in shape; they trained themselves. Many a player turns up at camp hog-fat; Musial, who had put himself on a winter schedule of two meals a day, reported five pounds underweight and built up to his normal 175. When the season began, Stan Musial dug in at the plate with his peculiar crouch. "He looks like a kid peeking around...
...came across. Canada got: ¶ A new Montreal-New York route for the government-owned Trans-Canada Airlines, thus letting T.C.A. tap the richest U.S. traffic center and providing the first competition for Colonial Airlines on Colonial's most lucrative route. ¶ Traffic rights at Tampa and St. Petersburg, which will strengthen T.C.A.'s present Montreal-Nassau-Jamaica route. ¶ Traffic rights at Hawaii for Canadian Pacific's projected flights from Vancouver to Australia...