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Clean Cruelty. In Boston, Paul F. Bucci won a divorce on grounds of cruelty when he testified that his wife kept their home too clean - "like a show place and I couldn't enjoy it." Arsenal. In Des Moines, Robert Butterworth was arrested by police and given a routine...
*Officially five rubles equal one U.S. dollar, but this ratio has no bearing on relative purchasing power. The actual value of the ruble varies from article to article, depending on scarcity and Government decree. A pair of shoes worth $5 may cost 300 rubles. A pound of butter worth 52...
Each of the Big Three last year collected the lush 150,000-ruble (about $30,000) Stalin Prize for plane design. On the occasion, the press gave them its most flattering compliment: "Creators of Stalinist Aviation."
The orders for the transfer of Sargeant Willis V. Ruble, who was recently commissioned as first lieutenant in the regular army have been rescinded for 30 days, and he will not leave until about the middle of April. An instructor in Mil Sci, he formerly held the rank of first...
"Six weeks ago a bearded peasant Kolkhoznik in a village near Moscow said to me: 'When are the Germans coming to Russia to restore order?' The conversation was in a little village State-owned store where the peasant had bought several eggs at a ruble apiece. These eggs...