Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alexis Ivanovitch Rykov, who bears the titles of President of the Union Council of People's Commissaries and Chairman of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic Cabinet, asseverated that Russia's economic pulse was strong and steady, which, he claimed, was certain indication of Russia's ultimate recovery...
...increase from 15% in 1920; production of pig iron has increased from 7,000,000 pounds in 1921 to 35,000,000 in 1923-4; oil production leaves a large surplus for export; coal production is entirely satisfactory; stabilization of the ruble has tremendously improved the financial situation and Russia now has a foreign trade balance of 100,000,000 rubles ($11,500,000); unemployment is least satisfactory and figures quoted show substantial increases in each case; agricultural lands now cultivated are between 85 and 90% of the pre-War figure...
Despite these preparations Marshal Chang Tso-Lin, Manchurian Tuchun (War Lord), through whose territory the railway runs, averred that he will not hand over the railway unless Russia redeems 200,000,000 worthless paper rubles paid to Chinese workmen for their labor on the road...
...rest of the story is a dizzying mélange of Peter's wanderings seeking Georgina amid the Bolsheviks in Russia, the Sinn Feiners in Ireland, the Fascisti in Rome, the Ku Kluxers in the U. S. Georgina is continually turning up, conveniently but mysteriously, in the course of his terrestrial ambulations, and ectoplasmically fading from the picture again...
...Author. Born at Kiev, Russia, in 1881, John Cournos migrated with his parents to Philadelphia at the age of 10. He was successively factory-hand, newsboy, journalist, author: The Wall, The Mask, Babel. Living now in London, his recreations are: "Reading the Greeks and Elizabethans, watching the folly and wonder of life, playing with pebbles on the beach...