Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recession in Jail. New Mexico State penitentiary monthly El Boletin reported that sales of prison-made goods have dropped so much that inmates may have to depend on outside sources for their spending money...
...fear of Siberia is everywhere. The stories that circulate, though possibly exaggerated, are significant. One example: "Varkuta is the name of the place you are sent to. It is a town, or rather a prison camp, the Russians opened in 1943 behind the Urals. There are coal mines covering 4,000 square miles, a total of 1,500,000 slave workers in the pits. The region is subArctic. The ground is so hard frozen that those who die cannot be buried, but are left lying on the tundra, where the wolves and other wild animals take care of them...
...they will get back there he doesn't know, since he is no Tito supporter. Since he reached the U.S. in January, Městrović has been teaching at Syracuse University. Surroundings do not much concern him; he can work anywhere, he says, even in prison (where the Pietà was started). His concentrated philosophy: "Without the past there cannot be a future...
Died. Franz Seldte, 64, one-armed German soda-pop manufacturer who founded the powerful (one million members) pre-Hitler Stahlhelm veterans' group, later Nazi Minister of Labor; of dropsy, in a Nürnberg prison, where he was awaiting trial for his wartime role in the slave-labor program...
...lady (TIME, Nov. 19, 1939). She had decided to stick it out with her two-year-old son and her British husband, who was North Borneo's Director of Agriculture. Three Came Home is Mrs. Keith's blow-by-blow account of 3½ years in Jap prison camps-an ugly, brutal story, quietly and sometimes humorously told...