Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then investments in Russia since the Revolution are subject to this same risk...
...means! Investments in the new Russia are absolutely sound, because they are guaranteed by our Civil Code. The Harriman interests know this, and have obtained great manganese concessions in Georgia.* The production of their Georgian Manganese Co. was 63,000 metric tons last month...
...When foreigners invested in Russia's mines and vast untapped resources, it was because their profits were greater than those to be derived at home. They were therefore speculating, and must stand their losses as a speculator or a gambler does...
...Perhaps some of you men pretend to think that Russia is a Paradise. I shall call your bluff! If I can find one solitary man, at present unemployed, who will agree to go to Russia and live there for two years, I myself will pay for his passage and for that of his family...
Died. Captain Madame Nadezhda Budennaya, famed Soviet cavalry-woman, wife of General Budenny, Commander in Chief of the Soviet cavalry; at Moscow. Reputed the most dashing female rider in all Russia, she was twice wounded in action against the Wrangel forces...