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...only wheat, the Ukraine's rich, black soil now produces sugar beets, flax, cotton. Fully 96% of the land is now collectivized. From the Ukraine come some of the Soviet's best-known figures: Alexei Stakhanov, author of the speed-up system, Maria Demchenko, champion sugar-beet raiser, Valentin Kataev, Soviet author. The Ukrainian language, outlawed by the Tsar, is not only now allowed but fostered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN EUROPE: Liberation | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Once again the undefeated Yardling cagers will provide the curtain raiser at 7:15 o'clock when they tackle the Terrier yearlings. This game brings together two equally matched and high scoring quintets, but the Stahleymen are determined to keep their unblemished record intact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Hoopmen Meet Unbeaten Boston University Five Tonight | 12/17/1938 | See Source »

This was the third triumph for the Harvard Freshmen in as many starts. Their next game is Saturday night when they meet the Boston University Cube in another curtain-raiser for the Varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FESLERMEN DEFEATED BY BROWN 53-31; YARDLINGS TROUNCE BRUIN CUBS 48-44 | 12/15/1938 | See Source »

These same Yardlings have had no chance to work together as a team, but they have rapidly reached the scrimmage state and have been able to assist Fesler as he whips his squad into shape for the curtain-raiser in M. I. T.'s Hangar Gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet Speeds Practice For MIT Opener | 12/3/1938 | See Source »

...wide, U. S. businessmen were unhappy. What most of them wanted last week was not relief from upped labor costs but relief from uncertainty. From a Detroit hotel which feared that elevator boys who serve traveling salesmen were engaged in interstate commerce, to a Texas turkey raiser who wanted to know whether employes who gathered his turkey eggs had to get 25? an hour, employers were in a dither to know whether the law applied to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Cats | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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