Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Discoverer of the plot was one Wilson, correspondent in Manhattan of Pravda. Pravda means "Truth." Pravda is the official Soviet daily of the Communist Party. What Wilson cabled to Moscow, Pravda printed as news...
...Pravda, Sleuth Wilson's expose was headlined "How the United States Prepared Intervention." The lead...
Moscow guffawed privately, took a dead serious official view. Pravda, official news-organ of the Soviet Regime, demanded that the three circuit court officials be recalled to Moscow, tried and severely punished "for making the State appear ridiculous," for not having had the wit to know that Dictator Stalin, whatever else he may do, does not order sparrows "kept ready...
...English public might well give the Moscow authorities ground for ridicule. People who take every statement from the Soviet Union as a piece of propaganda for world reform often fail to realize that propagandists can exist on both sides and that their own position has no better justification. The Pravda might supersede the proposed Columbus expedition with an international five-year plan against unfounded prejudices...